 | William Shakespeare - 1765 - 540 pages
...With true love Showers. Oph. Well, God 'ield you I They fay, «the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be. God be at your table! King. How do ye, pretty bdy? .King. Conceit upon your father. " Oph. Pray, let... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 630 pages
...JOHNSON. VOL. X. T King. Oph. Well, God 'ield you! They fay, 5 the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be. God be at your table! King. How do you, pretty lady ? Oph. Pray, let us have no words of this -, but... | |
 | William Gifford - 1793 - 82 pages
...Yes, Sir, I am proud of the infmuation while I defpife it. The owl, they fay, was a baker's daughter. We know what we ARE, but we know not what we MAY BE. Thereby hangs a tale : and the WORLD fhall have it — Choice BIOGRAPHY is the boaft of MY Paper —... | |
 | William Gifford - 1800 - 222 pages
...Andrews' verse,* and censure mine — 10 NOTES. " despise it. The owl, they say, was a taker's daughter. " We know what we ARE, but we know not what we "MAY BE. Thereby hangs a tale : and the WORLD " shall have it — Choice BIOGRAPHY is the boast of "MY Paper... | |
 | Thomas Bellamy - 1802 - 352 pages
...poffibly, providence my ordain other means for gratifying your wifhes ; for, as Ophelia fays, * we all know what we are, but we know not what we may be ; and you muft live in hope.' This converfation, which promifed to be important to Alfred, was interrupted... | |
 | William Gifford - 1811 - 220 pages
...Sir, I am proud of the insinuation while I despise it. The " owl, they say, was a baker's daughter. We know what we " ARE, but we know not what we MAY BE. Thereby hangs " a tale: and the WORLD shall have it—Choice BIOGRAPHY "• is the boast of MY Paper—Verba... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...scatters out the secrets of her virgin heart : " They say the oivl was a baker's daughter. — Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be. — God be at your table ! " And again : " I hope all will be well. We must be patient ; but I cannot... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 352 pages
...wretch ! Yet there is some force in the earnestness with which he urges the uncertain nature of death. " We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." — And yet, after all, it is the love of what we are going from, more than the fear of what we are going to,... | |
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - 1825 - 378 pages
...an extravagant tribute to the powers of the Mad Doctor ; for, as the great bard has phrased it — 1 We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.' " Though it is palpable to me, that the knight alluded to has been benighted in some of his professional... | |
 | Peter George Patmore - 1826 - 376 pages
...only part of which we can be sure that it will be what we would have it be. Ophelia says that " we all know what we are, but we know not what we may be." But with all due deference to the wisdom of her simplicity, she was wrong in both clauses of her proposition.... | |
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We know what we are, but we know not what we may be... 
