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American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 149
1840
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Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius ..., Part 154, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 672 pages
...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. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. гз King. How well...
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their strous mouse that creeps on floor, May now, perchance, lx>th qua Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. KING. Itow well...
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The North British Review, Volume 29

1858 - 596 pages
...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. Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name. A man so profoundly...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 740 pages
...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. 4 When I to FBAST expressly am forbid j] All the old editions read fait for "feast." The word is altered...
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The works of William Shakspere; from the text of the editions by C. Knight ...

William Shakespeare - 1859 - 1120 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their speare Too much to know is, to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can gire a name. King. How well...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 46

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...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. Too much to know is to know naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name." Л man so profoundly...
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Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt: Written Between the Years 1827 and 1858 ...

Alexander von Humboldt - Authors, German - 1860 - 374 pages
...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 ; Too much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every godfather can give a name." " Den ird'schen...
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Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt to Varnhagen Von Ense: From 1827 to 1858 ...

Alexander von Humboldt - Naturalists - 1860 - 430 pages
...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; And every godfather can give a name." SHAKESPEABE, Love's...
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Pearls of Shakspeare, a collection of the most brilliant passages found in ...

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 188 pages
...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. Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. A MERRY MAN. A...
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Choice thoughts from Shakspere, by the author of 'The book of familiar ...

William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...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 : Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. A conceited Courtier....
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