Candle-light

Evenings by candle-light in Wroclaw.

O! it is divine and moſt admirable, and ſo farre beyond all that ever he publiſhed heretofore, as day-light beyond candle-light, or tinſell or leafe-gold above arſedine; […]

The fight of whom, though now decayd and mard, / And eke but hardly ſeene by candle-light, / Yet like a Diamond of rich regard, / In doubtfull ſhadow of the darkeſome night, / VVith ſtarrie beames about her ſhining bright, / Theſe marchants fixed eyes did ſo amaze, / That what through wonder, & what through delight, / A while on her they greedily did gaze, / And did her greatly like, and did her greatly praize.

Fifty a contemptible Age! Not at all, a very faſhionable Age I think—I aſſure you, I know very conſiderable Beaus, that ſet a good Face upon Fifty,. Fifty! I have ſeen Fifty in a ſide Box by Candle-light, out-bloſſom Five and Twenty.

The ſheets of brovvn paper being ſo thin acquired it ſooneſt, and vvhen beheld in candle-light they became beautifully ſpangled over by innumerable reflections from the ſmall cryſtals of hoar-froſt vvhich had parted from the air.

Most of the colours called drabs appear to me the same by day-light and candle-light.

I am now finishing this letter by candle-light, with the help of a handkerchief tied over the shade.

I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle-light, and not too much to eat.

You rise by candle-light or gaslight, swearing / There never was a climate made like ours; / If rashly you go out to take an airing, / The soot-flakes come in black Plutonian show'rs.