Hidden fields
Books Books
" Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,... "
The Opinions of Different Authors Upon the Punishment of Death - Page 185
by Basil Montagu - 1809 - 315 pages
Full view - About this book

The Plays, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...iSplit'st the unwedgeable and gnarled f oak, Than the soft myrtle : — O, but man, proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he's...assur'd, His glassy essence, like an angry ape^ Plays suck fantastick tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep : who, with our spleens, Would all...
Full view - About this book

The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - Fore-edge painting - 1824 - 428 pages
...thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeahle and gnarledf oak, Than the soft myrtle—O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority;...Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,—like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep:...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...Split's! the unwedgeable and gnarled3 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, His glassy essence, — like an angn ape, Plays sucn fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep : who, with our spleens,...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...! der. — Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurousbolt, Split'stthc unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authori thy, Most ignorant of what he's most assnr'd, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays...
Full view - About this book

The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and ...

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1824 - 374 pages
...through the paths of Virtue, to the highest bowers of terrestrial bliss. But Man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence, instead of following the dictates of sound and unpolluted reason, mistaking his true road to happiness,...
Full view - About this book

A Report Exhibiting a View of the Fiscal and Judicial System of ...

William Chaplin - 1824 - 282 pages
...manual for every one newly arrived from England. The motto of it might be in the words of Shakespeare. O ''But man proud man! — " Drest in a little brief authority, " Most ignorant <fwhat he is most assured. " His glassy essence " Pla)s such fantastic tricks before high Hea" ven...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...(thunder. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split 'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, R L ; Matt ignorant of what he's most assnr'd, HU jtlis.'Y essence,— like an angry ape, Plavs *nch fantastic...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled 10 oak, Than the soft myrtle n : — But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantas.tick tricks before high heaven, 8 One of Judge Hale's * Memorials' is of the same tendency:...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Midsummer ...

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled 1o oak, Than the soft myrtle 11 : — But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks before high heaven, 8 One of Judge Hale's ' Memorials' is of the same tendency :...
Full view - About this book

The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak2, Than the soft myrtle ; — O, but man, proud man ! f Brest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF