greatness

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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favour dream as I have done, Wake and find nothing.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Poor wretches, that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Such being the doctrine intended to be set forth, the text rightly says, 'this all-pervasiveness of thine is thy greatness'; otherwise it would have to say, 'it is thy error.'

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine, 950. that depend on greatness' favor, 689.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Nay more, for greatness' sake, he will be one May hear my epigrams, but like of none.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant