 | William Hugh Logan - 1874 - 564 pages
...you, my lord, must be the first that e'er This sentence gave, and he the first that suffers it. 'Tis excellent to have a giant's strength, But tyrannous to use it like a giant. LUc. Well said again ! ISAB. If men could thunder As great Jove does, Jove ne'er would quiet be ; For... | |
 | 1874 - 692 pages
...independent man. He will realize with a keen sensibility the truth in these words : " Tis pleasant to have a giant's strength, But tyrannous to use it like a giant," EXTRACT FROM A RECENT ADDRESS OF THE GRAND - M ASTER OF ENGLAND— THE MARQUIS OF RIPON. There is a... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1875 - 420 pages
...in possession of it are in all their proceedings infallible. "0, it is excellent," says the poet, " to have a giant's strength, but tyrannous, to use it like a giant." I think history supplies us with instances in the Church, where legitimate power has been harshly used.... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - 368 pages
...Cruelty better becomes weakness than strength. Yet little did the Spaniards understand that . . . it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but tyrannous To use it like a giant. Few of us indeed can rise above the temptation of being harsh and imperious towards a much inferior... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1877 - 468 pages
...resentful. It is weakness and insecurity that make one fretful and quarrelsome. Shakspeare says it is good to have a giant's strength, but tyrannous to use it like a giant. We know that the more gigantic the resources of a man the less tempted he is to put them forth. It... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...a saying of Philip of -Macedon that no town waa impregnable into which gold could be introduced. It is excellent To have a giant's strength but tyrannous To use it like a giant. — Shakespeare. On his return home early in the month of August Pace who was at this time a favourite... | |
 | Richard Morris, Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1878 - 120 pages
...politics, the Independents were— to use the phrase of their time — root-and-branch men. 31. Tis excellent to have a giant's strength ; But tyrannous to use it like a giant. 32. They passed the word to keep a sharp Jook-out on the weather-bow. 33. The sight of means to do... | |
 | Henry William Tucker - 1879 - 434 pages
...prolonged presence in these seas of a really enlightened naval officer, one of those who believe that " It is excellent to have a giant's strength, But tyrannous to use it like a giant ; " a man like Captain Sotheby, or Captain Maxwell, or Captain Erskine, or Sir Everard Home, who will... | |
 | James Hildyard - 1879 - 464 pages
...model of perfection, which, with all their desire, they feel themselves incapable of attaining. " It is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but tyrannous To use it like a giant." * See, in proof of this, the 9th, 10th, llth, 12th, and other Canons of the Church, with the constant... | |
 | Practical notes - 1879 - 208 pages
...committed, but we ought to remember that if we are powerful we ought to be merciful, and that " 'Tis excellent to have a giant's strength, but tyrannous to use it like a giant." CHAPTER XII. ON BEING TRUE AND TRUSTY. FATHER FABER remarks in his Spiritual Conferences, " There is... | |
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O ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but tyrannous To use it like a giant. 
