“How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Satire VII, l. 97.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.”
The Parish Register (1807), Part i, "Introduction". Compare "How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97.
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