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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved Text of ... - Page 220
by William Shakespeare - 1844
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...sons." Or, to take what is not so much used by Shakspeare, the rhymed poetry in Love's Labour Lost : " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...Than those that walk, and wot not what they are." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...light that was it blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd ul youth, That which I owe is lost : but if you please To shoot another arrow that self [fame ; Too much to know, is, to know nougnt but And every godfather run give a name. King. How well...
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The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to ..., Volume 2

Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 pages
...of any star, may have as much pleasure in the sight of nature as those who know its secrets. " Those earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." The kind of fascination, indeed, which is exercised on common minds by whatever sounds like intellectual...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...light that it was blinded by.4 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks : Small have continual plodders ever...wot not what they are. Too much to know is, to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. King. How well he's read, to reason against...
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The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...light that was it blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever...godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fix6d star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they...
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd so, my lord ; for his valour cannot carry his discretion ; and the fox carries nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. KING. Itow well he 's read, to reason against...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 740 pages
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks : Small have continual plodders ever...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. 4 When I to FBAST expressly am forbid j] All the old editions read fait for "feast." The word is altered...
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The North British review

1858 - 594 pages
...deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from other's books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,...wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought hut fame; And every godfather can give a name. A man so profoundly versed in the knowledge of...
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Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius ..., Part 154, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 672 pages
...Leiter (his heed) dienen und Eurem Ange das Lieh' geben , von dem es , Euer Auge , zuvor geblendet war. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. гз King. How well he 's read, to reason against...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever...lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no moro profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know,...
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