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 they are. The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 7by William Shakespeare - 1810Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1876 - 618 pages
...That^will not be dcep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, ^3ave"base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they arc. Too much to know is, to know nought bftt fame ; f And everygodfather can give a name. KING. How... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1876 - 1000 pages
...deep-search 'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodden ever won, Save base authority from other's Thoee are o - areedge, Too much to Know is, to know nought but fame i And every godfather can give a name. Л"/«./.... | |
| Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...William Shakespeare was a man of no small intellect, and mark what he says about astronomers : — These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." Not a jot ! Who ever heard of the moon shining more brightly, or of the stars winking more waggishly,... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 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...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." * So much for the sciolist. And next for the complaint of the adept. It may be that Mr. Wordsworth... | |
| William Shakespeare - Songs, English - 1879 - 274 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. XV THE PERJURIES OF LOVE T"\ID not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world cannot... | |
| James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...feast. STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, Macbeth, ii. 2. 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. SUPERFLUITY. Love's Labour Lost, i. 1. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 668 pages
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks : Small have continual plodders ever...their shining nights Than those that walk, and wot not и hat they are. Too much to know, is to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name.... | |
| George Sylvester Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 510 pages
...outermost limit of possible, knowledge. . " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights [the astronomers] That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more...wot not what they are; Too much to know is to know naught but fame: And every godfather can give a name." LL Lost, I, 1. Shakespeare here satirizes, in... | |
| 1880 - 240 pages
...look ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthy godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. ' We are not surprised, therefore, to find that those whom our critic specially admires for their loving... | |
| George Harley McKnight - English language - 1928 - 638 pages
...adds a judgment of the futility of learning in general, expressed in the well-known words of Biron: Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority...nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. The words assigned to Biron express the feeling of Shakespeare himself. Early in life he became aware... | |
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