 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.  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 1491840Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 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. LL i. 1. ATTACHMENT.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their K :pK :`k : Too much to know is to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. King. How well he's... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 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." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their hter. Seb. A match. Adr. Though this island seem to he desert, Too much to know is to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. [ing ! King. How... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 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." How true is it what Coleridge said, " that you might as well think of pushing a brick out of a wall... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 368 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." The kind of fascination, indeed, which is exercised on common minds by whatever sounds like intellectual... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their And, if it stand, as you yourself still do, [it ; Within the. ey [fame ; Too much to know, is, to know nougnt but And every godfather run give a name. King. How well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 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 naught but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. King. How well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fix6d 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 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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