| Hugh Owen, John Brickdale Blakeway - 1825 - 662 páginas
...power, and insensible to the calls of religion and conscience ! HOMO HOMINI LUPUS! Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. A few words must be said of the earl's posterity. His only son, deprived... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 páginas
...all these powerful inducements to the exercise of humility, man dares to be proud and arrogant. - " Man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep." How affecting, to contemplate the warrior, flushed with diabolical pride,... | |
| Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - 1826 - 366 páginas
...various, and, to him, important occurrences of the past eventful night. CHAPTER XII. Man, vain man,. Drest in a little brief authority. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven Aa make the angels weep. SBAKIPEA&B. THE resolution formed by Sandoval of joining Mina was to be carried... | |
| Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 páginas
...of lustihood," should plunge into the vortex of criminal excess, when AGE, "settled age," " Dress'd in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before High Heaven, " As makes the Angels weep. In consequence of the continued unruliness of the Burchenschqft gentry... | |
| William Pitt Scargill - 1828 - 274 páginas
...reposes in his strength, and knowing how much he can command, is slow at making exhibition of his force ; but ' man proud man.!' /' Dressed in a little brief.../ Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As mako the angels weep.' " / •' I remember, sir," said I, " to have seen once, in tiie library of... | |
| 1828 - 268 páginas
...chasing some urchins from their innocent play on the pavemen of cloisters : ' But man, proud man% Drest in a little brief authority. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.' Plate 3, represents a barrister in wig and gown, is onference with a grinning... | |
| Francis Lathom - 1828 - 896 páginas
...thunderl Nothing but thunder ! Merciful Heaven I Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. But man!— proud m»n ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence... | |
| Henry David Inglis - 1829 - 334 páginas
...might be read, striking enough to decrease the number of those examples in which Proud man, Clothed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep. From Roeskilde to Soroe, the country is less interesting, but there the scenery... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 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... | |
| Oliver Moore - 1833 - 242 páginas
...each left to their own exertions and protection. CHAPTER XXXVIII. " Oh! but man — proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep." To render the signal of distress an object of deeper attention to the commodore... | |
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