| Joseph Bullar - 1850 - 164 páginas
...sense of the ridiculous belongs to the merely human part of our nature, not to the divine. Man, vain man, dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. The man laughs at these tricks ; the angel looks at them as indications of... | |
| Indiana. Constitutional Convention - 1850 - 1022 páginas
...than that in which he depicts the effects of power when conferred on man: "Man, proud man, dreseed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As makes e'en angels weep." But this would not be the only evil we should encounter under the system... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 páginas
...be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and...gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : But man, proud man" ! Dress 'd in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, His glassy essence,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 páginas
...; nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st 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 fantastic... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 620 páginas
...every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven 1 Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : Bat man, proud man* ! Dress 'd hi a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1851 - 360 páginas
..." dressed " (to use the words of the immortal bard, whom he so modestly and liberally patronises) " dressed in a little brief authority, plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven," — not "as make the angels weep," — but his own candle-snuffers laugh, and his own scene-shifters... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 páginas
...he — " Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, И is glassy essence, like an angry ape, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." Under the specious name of " philosophic inquiry," more audacious infidelity... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 páginas
...worship thrice sacred to devotion ; its violation is a triple sacrifice. But " Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels wecp." STANZA v. Far on the solitary shore he slesps : It was not always the custom... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. — Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — O, but man, proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 páginas
...for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy." MAN'S ARROGANCE. " Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ! — O, but man, proud man, (Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,... | |
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