...witty and perfectly expressed. Take a few collected almost at random :— This on Book-learning— Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. This on Word-mongers— They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps. This on...

...professed astronomers. He preferred a less rigorous method of observing sun and stars than they practised : Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. (Love's LLI i. 84-91) In Shakespeare's England a mass of folklore and superstition clung about the...

...the passage in Drayton, occurs in LLL, I, i, 88-91, the date of which cannot be subsequent to 1598: These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. [ELTON (Michael Drayton, 1905, p. 57) is disposed to agree with Beeching. On this matter see further...

...speech in the LABOUR. Seeking to establish his thesis, Mr. Acheson argues 1 that Shakespeare's lines : These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are; are directed against Chapman's way of multiplying names for the moon. But Chapman makes no approach...

...speech in the LABOUR. Seeking to establish his thesis, Mr. Acheson argues 1 that Shakespeare's lines : These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are; are directed against Chapman's way of multiplying names for the moon. But Chapman makes no approach...

...heaven's glorious sun That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks : SmalLJiave continual ploddeja ever won Save base authority from others' books. These...fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights 90 ^ i iJThan those that walk and wot not what they are. r""Too much to know is to know nought but...

...humblest and, as the student of her night gifts and glories declares in "Love's Labour Lost," Those earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a...nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. It is true enough of life's rarest offerings that ofttimes "Light seeking light doth light of light...

...and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion. King John. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 182. 5 now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 88. 6 And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the...

...dim or In either case (and I dislike the latter That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks ; 85 (Small have continual plodders ever won, \Save base...star, Have no more profit of their shining nights 90 Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know nought but fame ; And...

...tl.y toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil ? Fables: The Shepherd and the Philosopher. J. GAY. Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base...give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit uf their shining nights Than those that walk, and wot not what they urc. I l.mf's Latter I tnt, Act\....