 Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what...  The Works of Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost - Page 7by William Shakespeare - 1906 - 183 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 pages
...what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. 3 That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, King. How well he's read, to reason against reading! Dum. Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks: ometimes nature will betray its foll Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks: es, I do know him well; and common speech Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That gave a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; Anil... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be dcrp-srarch'd with saucy looks ; hou wouldstl Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine...tell thee what, my friend, He is a very serpent in my Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but tame; And... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...themselves. " Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are." Love's Labour's Lott. " I was a scholar : seven useful... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 pages
...good-natured observer; yet these men of nomenclatures did not escape so easily in his hands : — * These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights. That...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.' * So much for the sciolist. And next for the complaint... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched Avith saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won, , Save base...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 556 pages
...blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; And... | |
 | William Carey Richards - 1850 - 130 pages
...LOVE'S LABOR LOST, Act v., Scene 2. NOVEMBER 16th. — James Furgurson, the astronomer, died. 1776. '' These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they nre." LOVE'S LABOR LOST, Act i , Scene 1 . NOVEMBER 17th.... | |
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