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" 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 Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature - Page 56
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Memoir of the Rev. Charles Nisbet, D.D.: Late President of Dickinson College ...

Samuel Miller - 1840 - 376 pages
...bolt, Split'st the unwcdgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : But man, proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tiicks before high heaven, As make the angels weep ."* "This electrified the Assembly; and...
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle: oh, 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...
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st 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, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As...
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English country life, by Martingale

James White - 1843 - 310 pages
...of opposition and scarcely a murmur of disapprobation on the part of those who were the sufferers. " Man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority;...Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence—like an angry ape, J'lays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep."*...
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English Country Life

Martingale - 1843 - 314 pages
...of opposition and scarcely a murmur of disapprobation on the part of those who were the sufferers. " 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."*...
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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ...

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwcdgeable and gnarled ' oak, Than the soft myrtle ; — assur'd, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,...
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Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare: Compared ...

William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...serve Heaven With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves ? MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ii. 2. O, but man ! proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep. MEASURE...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled ouk, Than the soft myrtle ; — O, hut 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...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split the unwcdgeablc and gnarled oak, Than the sou myrtle.—O, but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he 's most ossur'd, His glassy essence,—like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...prmces. 207. Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. 208. Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured. 260. No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'soape ; back-wounding calumny...
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