 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...Spencer. I held it ever, Virtue and knowledge were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. Sh. Peric. nl. 2. Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves ; for... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...— "I held it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'T is known I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 pages
...CER. I held it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'T is known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 pages
...Cer. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god.—Act 3, Sc. 2. VENUS AND ADONIS. Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pages
...it. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches. Careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making the man a god. In " Andronicus" there are perhaps fewer allusions to material objects and living things... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...and cunning" were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two hitter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'T is known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have... | |
 | Henry Green - Emblems - 1870 - 654 pages
...— " I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend, But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god." The horses and chariot of Phoebus, and the presumptuous charioteer Phae'ton, who attempted to drive... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 344 pages
...Wealth. I held it ever, Virtue and cunning f were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. It is generally supposed that this comedy was written at the command of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1873 - 750 pages
...used to express " knowledge" or "skill "] were endowments greater Than nobleness or riches. Careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. I have thus far instanced those among Shakespeare's philosophic characters mainly grave in disposition... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 578 pages
...GEE. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning b were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend ; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'T is known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have... | |
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T is most strange Nature should be so conversant with pain, Being thereto not compell'd. Cer. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches; careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend, But immortality attends... 
