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The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina Or Common Things in Relation to Beauty, Virtue ... - Page 168
by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders everwon, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. * Dishonestly, treacherously, Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame; And every godfather can...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever Won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...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 plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...sancy looks ; Small have continnal plodders ever won, Save hase anthority from others' hooks. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. So to the laws at large I write my name : (Suhscrihes. And he that hreaks them in the least degree,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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, i Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...others' books. Tht-se earthly godfathers of heaven's light!, Tliat give » name to every fixed star, Hare & Too much to know, is. to know nought but fame ; And every godfather can give a name. Kin/;. How well...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever won Save hase authority from others' books i These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than (hose that walk, and wot not what lliey are. Tdb much to know, is to know nought but fame, And every...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...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 Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...Steevens proposes to read was it, but unnecessarily ; it reto the first eye mentioned. BOSWELL. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...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 Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. Too much to know, is, to know nought bat fame ; And every godfather can give a name. King. How well...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...saucy looks ; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. These _ [fame ; Too much to kuow, is, to know nougnt but And every godfather can give a name. King. How well...
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