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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of ... - Page 10
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Pearls of Shakspeare, a collection of the most brilliant passages found in ...

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 188 pages
...females, and their lords: Then let your will attend on their accords. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. ON STUDY. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...wot not what they are. Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. A MERRY MAN. A merrier man, Within the limit...
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Pearls of Shakespeare: A Collection of the Most Brilliant Passages Found in ...

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 182 pages
...their females, and their lords : Then let your will attend on their accords. LO.VE'S LABOUR'S LOST. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they arc. Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; Aud every godfather can give a name. 11 A MERRY...
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Letters ... to Varnhagen von Ense, together with extr. from Varnhagen's ...

Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander freiherr von Humboldt - 1860 - 382 pages
...(C.) Shakspeare's " Love's Labour Lost." Act 1, scene 1. Biron thus speaks to the King of Navarre : " These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, That...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they arc ; Too much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every godfather can give a name." " Den ird'schen...
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A Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare: With Remarks on ..., Volume 1

William Sidney Walker - 1860 - 410 pages
...alphabet is a frequent source of error in the folio, as indeed in other books. Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1, — " Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,...ever won, Save base authority from others' books." Certainly bare. Two N. Kinsmen, i. 2, near the beginning, — " what strange ruins, Since first we...
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Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...sons." Or, to take what is not so much used by Shakspeare, the rhymed poetry in Love's Labour's Lost ; " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...of their shining nights Than those that walk, and \v ot not what they are." How true is it what Coleridge said, e{ that you might as well think of pushing...
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Choice thoughts from Shakspere, by the author of 'The book of familiar ...

William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...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 naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. A conceited Courtier. A man in all the world's...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Adapted for Family Reading

William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 pages
...be deep-search'd with saucy Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from other's h 7Ȉ B qӮ2 Yy 1I6 Օב ! A |B F cX2o $^YD }q j... ~ s 9 8Z \_Gـ H 0!" ڬeD  x [are. Than those that walk, and wot not what they Too much to know is, tc know nought but fame ; And....
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The Shakspere treasury of subject quotations, synonymously indexed [by W. Hoe].

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 96 pages
...studious universities. Two Gen. Ver., a. 1, s. 3. A very good tailor. All's Well, a. 2, s. 5. These earthy godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. LU La. Lo., a. 1, s. 1 . He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces. Lo. La. Lo., a. 5, *. 2. 162....
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1863 - 486 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...wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. King. How well he's read, to reason against...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1863 - 492 pages
...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, That will...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights i Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame ; And...
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