 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...all delights are vain; but that most vain, \Vbich, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. ON STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...Than those that walk, and wot not what they are Too murh to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. An envious sneaping*... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...powers of the air, or the motions of the stars. In reference to the education of which I speak, " Those earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." Let me not seem to speak lightly of the study of languages or the science of astronomy. The power and... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...there can be wisdom without incessant turning over leaves, recommends itself to wise judgments; for " Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...ever won, Save base authority from others' books." Learned men without the living spirit which breathes in nature, are often but vainly wearing out their... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 508 pages
...light th.it was it blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious »an, That will not be decp-search'd with saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever...These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That gave a name to every fixed star, Нате no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
