“Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.”
John Webster (1578–1634) English dramatist
Act IV, scene ii.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
The White Devil (1612)
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