...might he read strikingly enough to decrease the number of those examples in which " Proud man, Brest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep." We left Manon toddy between four and five in the afternoon for Panartacottah,...

...worship thrice sacred to devotion : its violation is a triple sacrilege. But — ** Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.' (1) £In the original MS. we find the following note to this stanza, which...

...Shakspeare uses two epithets to express these qualities, which are, perhaps, stronger than any we can find. Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splitt'st...unwedgeable and gnarled Oak, Than the soft myrtle. Many kinds of wood are harder, as box and ebony; many kinds are tougher, as yew and ash; but it is...

...thunder ; nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split's! the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...man, proud man ! Dressed in a little brief authority, — Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such...

...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,...

...hurled at the wretches who commit deeds like these. Well hath the poet said — Man, proud man, Dresa'd in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make e'en angels weep. NY Com. Ad. " Desha the Murderer. — A letter to one of the editors of the...

...upon him with a glance that penetrated to his very soul. G 5 THE CAPTURE. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. SHAKSPEARE. WE left Abia with Rachel, at her mother's, on the night of her...

...common sense the contempt such childish frivolity deserves. Well might Shakspeare say, " That foolish man, dressed in a little brief authority, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven," &c. Captain Bowling's conduct had the effect upon the first-lieutenant the former anticipated; he became...

...exercise any restraining dominion over themselves ; thus truly has the poet said, "Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angela weep." CHAP. XVII. Population of Albany — Numbers and classes — Character of...

...grymus hyn i ostyngeiddrwydd¿ y mae dyn yn beiddio bod yn falch ac uchelfrydig : — ' Man, prond man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." Hyny ydyw, -" Dyn, ïe dyn balch, Wedi ei wisgo âg ychydig o awdurdod o...