A little glooming light, much like a shade.
_Faery Queene_, b. i. c. 2. st. 14.
This fine expression of "DARKNESS VISIBLE" the Doctor's critical
sagacity has thus rendered clearer:--
No light, but rather A TRANSPICIUOUS GLOOM.
Again, our learned critic distinguishes the 74th line of the first
book--
As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole,
as "a vicious verse," and therefore with "happy conjecture," and no
taste, thrusts in an entire verse of his own composition--