_Quotations wanted._--Can any of your numerous correspondents oblige me
with the information as to where the following may be found:
"The difficult passages they shun,
And hold their farthing rushlight to the sun."
Again, this:
"And like unholy men
Quote scripture for the deed."
Again, this: The entire epigram said to have been made by Porson on a
Fellow of his college, who habitually pronounced Euphr_[)a]_tes (short)
instead of Euphr[=a]tes. The only words I remember--it is now near thirty
years since I heard it--are
"Et corripuit fluxeum;"
and Jekyll, the celebrated wit, rendered the epigram into English, and part
of it thus:
"He abridged the river."