 | Alfred Slater West - 1912 - 364 ページ
...clause : 1 That you have wronged me doth appear in this.' ['Your injustice doth appear in this.'] ' We know what we are, but we know not what we may 6e.' ['We know our present condition, but we know not our future condition?^ 74. Different classes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 658 ページ
...finance, and the round of duty — I am absorbed in two subjects : Rural England and my library. " We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." I may, perhaps, take office again. But I doubt it. ' Inveni portum.' My work, I am almost persuaded,... | |
 | Actress - 1913 - 258 ページ
...What a metamorphosis ! Well " They say the owl was a baker's daughter ! " she utters aloud. " Lord ! We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." Then, vaguely conscious that someone has greeted her, she says : " God be at your table ! " But her... | |
 | George Wyndham - 1915 - 590 ページ
...Death Duties) and the round of duty — I am absorbed in two subjects : Rural England and my library. ' We know what we are but we know not what we may be.' I may — perhaps — take office again. But I doubt it. ' Inveni portum.' My work, I am almost persuaded,... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - 1916 - 104 ページ
...Shakespeare has immortalised in Hamlet. Ophelia is made to say, " The owl was a baker's daughter : Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be." Here the old lady who was baking is replaced by a masculine baker, whose daughter refuses bread and... | |
 | Charles Frederick D'Arcy, Burnett Hillman Streeter, Lily Dougall - 1919 - 212 ページ
...kind in the words spoken by Ophelia in her madness : 'They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord ! we know what we are, but we know not what we may be'? "But Rome was not built in a day, and the change which can be effected in a single generation will... | |
 | George Wyndham, John William Mackail, Guy Percy Wyndham - 1925 - 458 ページ
...Death Duties) and the round of duty — I am absorbed in two subjects : Rural England and my library. ' We know what we are but we know not what we may be.' I may — perhaps — take office again. But I doubt it. ' Inveni portum.' My work, I am almost persuaded,... | |
 | 1925 - 840 ページ
...the opening sentence of the chapter gives the key to the writer's line of thought, and Ophelia's "AVe know what we are, but we know not what we may be " represents his fiew. And it is for such a thorough, useful, and accunte account of what we are (or... | |
 | 1898 - 630 ページ
...will always stick to me, won't you, Jo dear ? " asked the young man wistfully. " How can I tell ? ' We know what we are, but we know not what we may be,' as Ophelia — in spite of her brain-affection — so wisely remarked. It seems to me as silly to promise... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - 1917 - 462 ページ
...beautiful, the harmless, the pious," a very sad speech which is as true of a nation as of an individual. "We know what we are but we know not what we may be." In addition to Pennsylvania there are forty-seven important republics and a Federal republic embracing... | |
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