...manager, "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...

...: nothing bnt thunder. Merciful heaven I Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt) Split's! the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle: — But man, proud man! Dreat in a little brief authority : Most ignorant of whnt he's most assur'd, His glassy essence, —...

...or white." He bowed and retired. When the door was closed, I said : — " Man, proud man ! Drcss'd in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." April 4. — I received a letter from Mr. White, Solicitor of the Treasury,...

...worship thrice sacred to devotion ; its violation is a triple sacrilege. But "Man, vain man, Brest o possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless u As make the augels weep." 3. Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not always...

...them. It is thus that men, imitating their God, exact their atonement and satisfy their justice. Thus man, " Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep." Thus men assume the office of champions of God ; and thinking his honor intrusted...

...gross injustice, and high-handed despotism. Well has it been said, that — " Man, rain man, — Brest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes e'en Angels weep." Sir, said Mr. Morris, the advocates of such doctrines as I have mentioned,...

...apparent, than in the case of these red-hot American patriots, which says : — " Man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ! " Before this conspiracy-committee of " Daniels come to judgment," Mr. Van...

...is our own government an exception to this rule ? Or do we not find here, as every where else, that "Man. proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep." IIAYNJC. VIII. — EUROPEAN EXAMPLES. A continuation of the preceding speech....

...: nothing but thunder. 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 ! Drest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,...

...thunder; nothing but thunder. 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 ! Paltry. * Knotted. Dress'd in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most assured,...