 Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks ; 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,...  The Plays of William Shakspeare - Sida 157efter William Shakespeare - 1823Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 sidor
...sun, That will not be deep-srarch;d with saucy lookf ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Sure er ˾ IVMÏIN. Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is to know naught but tame... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 454 sidor
...favor upon the millions who would read him with simple pleasure, made Birone say of the astronomers : " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." It was by no strange feature or striking peculiarity in the construction of his works that Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 624 sidor
...upon the millions who would read him with simple pleasure, made Hirone say of the astronomers, — " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are." That which first distinguished Shakespeare from the little throng of dramatists among whom, and with... | |
 | 1865 - 714 sidor
...formidable names, must not look to our poet for sympathy. For instance, in Love's Labour's Lost, he says, These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.t First, a few words on the birds of Shakspeare. His poetry shows that he was well acquainted with... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1865 - 392 sidor
...formidable names, must not look to our poet for sympathy. For instance, in Love's Labour's Lost, he says, These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.t First, a few words on the birds of Shakspeare. His poetry shows that he was well acquainted with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 612 sidor
...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 fame ; And every godfather can give a name. are. Too much to know is, to know nought but King. How... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1100 sidor
...Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is ükc O/ H:tve no more profit of their shining nights 90 Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 sidor
...light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be dcep-search'd s ever virtuous ; and holy men at their Tlian those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know is, to know nought but fame ; And... | |
 | John Kitto - 1867 - 544 sidor
...and opened.' They who labour most in these high mysteries are not thereby brought nearer to God — ' These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. ' So we shall never be asked — it will never be essential to our well-being, here or hereafter —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 622 sidor
...— his reasoning is deep and true, and ought to have turned them aside from their folly: — • " Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...ever won, Save base authority from others' books." But the vow is ratified, and its abjuration will only be the result of its practical inconvenience.... | |
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