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The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 157
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...STUDY. STURDY. STYLE. STUDY. STUDY is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever...shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not that they are. Too much to know, is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. Shakspere....
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search 7 d ouths, those anticks garnished in our colours. Is...they have all been beholding, shall (were ye in that profits of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 pages
...was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with sauey looks : Small have continual plodders ever won, Save...That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profits of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1854 - 424 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looksj Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base...their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot rfbt what they arc. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a...
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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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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 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, doth light of light beguile; So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grow« h. Alas, poor Richard ! [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 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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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 740 pages
...it upon a fairer eye ; Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,...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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