 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 454 pages
...passage thus ; and then I see no reason to complain of want of connexion : Wken JUDGES have been babes : GREAT FLOODS HAVE FLOWN FROM SIMPLE SOURCES ; and...DRY'd, When miracles have by the GREATEST been deny^d. ie Miracles have continued to happen, while the •wisest men have been writing against the possibility... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...holy writ in babes hath judinnent shown, Whenjudges have been babes. Great floods ha Whenjudg' fl< From simple sources; and great seas have dry*d When miracles have by theGreatest been denyM. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...by the weakest minister : . So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes. Great floods have flown From simple sources ; and great seas have dry'd, When miracles have by th' greatest been deny'd. 'Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises : and oft... | |
 | Ashbel Steele - 1857 - 438 pages
...BUEWSTEE. LIFE AND TIME OF ELDER BREWSTER. CHAPTER I. He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister : Great floods have flown From simple sources. SHAKSPEARE. FROM smallest beginnings, which appear to most men at the time unworthy of notice, often... | |
 | Thomas Ray Eaton - 1858 - 212 pages
...the weakest minister : So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes. Gi eat floods have flown from simple sources ; and great seas have dryd, When miracles have by tlte greatest been deny d. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...Himself with princes." — Henry VIII., IV., 2. * " He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister : Great floods have flown From simple sources ; and great seas have dried, When miracles have by the greatest been denied." —All's Well. II., 1. t " The third part,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 132 pages
...that are not? Julius Casar, v. iii. SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: . . . great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. All 's Well That Ends Well, ni Yield not thy... | |
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises ; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits. 