Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man! Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels... The Science of English Verse - Página 185de Sidney Lanier - 1880 - 295 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 páginas
...to him, to him, wench : he will relent, He's coming, I perceiv't. Prov. Pray heaven, she win him ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, 5 Than the soft myrtle ;—O, but man, proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." 9.Far on the solitary shore he sleeps: Stanza v. line 2. It wag not always... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." 3. Far on the solitary shore he sleept, Stanza v. line 2. It was not always... | |
| Charles James Fox - 1815 - 516 páginas
...the protecting genius ef England been either asleep or satisfied. .. " O but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep." Now, it seems, the constitution is complete—now we are to stand still.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 248 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." 3. Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not always... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - 384 páginas
...worship trice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple iacrileije. But "Man, vain man, "Drest in a little brief authority, "Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven "As make the angels weep." 3Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not always... | |
| Barbara Hofland - 1820 - 712 páginas
...fell with treble force in the place where it could be most felt and deplored. Man — vain man, Brest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the Angels weep In consequence of Mr. Gunner's ma*~iagement, the abode of poverty was rendered... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 páginas
...lines : " ——^— Merciful heaven! " Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, " Split's! the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, " Than the soft myrtle; — But man, proud man," &c. There can be no doubt that a word was omitted in the last line ; perhaps some epithet to myrtle.... | |
| mrs. Ross - 1821 - 688 páginas
...when first I saw you ?" Rashleigh, " albeit unused" to surprise at the various moods of man, who, " dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven. As make the angels weep," was almost incredulous of the identity of the impassioned, agitated, shaken... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 páginas
...find these lines : " Merciful heaven! " Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, " Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, " Than the soft myrtle; — But man, proud man," &c. There can be no doubt that a word was omitted in the last line; perhaps some epithet to myrtle.... | |
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