Quote#Love
Oh, rather give me commentators plain
Quote byGeorge Crabbe · 1754–1832
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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..
English (original)
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.
— George Crabbe
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