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American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 149
1840
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Chamber's household edition of the dramatic works of ..., Part 28, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1861 - 406 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. King. How well...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their 0 0` 0 Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. KINO. How well...
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The Shakspere treasury of subject quotations, synonymously indexed [by W. Hoe].

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 96 pages
...earthy 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. 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 Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 560 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. King. How well...
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Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare. The plays of ..., Part 178, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their have, And prac Too much to know, is to know naught but fame ; • And every godfather can give a name. King. How well...
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Memoirs of the life of William Shakespeare, with an essay toward the ...

Richard Grant White - English drama - 1865 - 454 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." It was by no strange feature or striking peculiarity in the construction of his works that Shakespeare...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with Biographical Introduction by ...

William Shakespeare - 1865 - 544 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. King. How well he's...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have uo more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Act i. Sc. 1. That unlettered, small-knowing soul. Act i. Sc. 1. A child of our grandmother Eve, a...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The comedy of errors. Much ado about ...

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 450 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. King. How well...
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Passages from the works of Shakespeare, selected and tr. into Germ ...

William Shakespeare - 1866 - 176 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 mnch to know is to know nonght bnt fame; And every godfather can give a name. 'Tis the eye of child...
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