If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,... And speed glum heroes up the line to death,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;... Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Williams. I pray you, what thinks he of our estate? King Henry. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be... washed off the next tide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,... Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain, Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself g...et good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of a...n Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »