 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...still it was a place of worship thrice sacred to devotion : its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angels weep." Far on the solitary shore he sleeps: Stanza v. line 2. their dead ; the... | |
 | John Steele, William McCorkle - Clergy - 1814 - 172 pages
...ELY, AND -.KVERAL OF THE JUDICATORIES OF THE CHURCH WITH WHICH THEY ARE CONNECTED. " 'But man i proud man ! " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, " As make e'en Angels weep!" YlilLADELPHLV. May, 1814. T4HISTORY OF ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But K 2 " Man, vain man, " Brest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic...«. .It was not always the custom of the Greeks to bunt their dead ; the greater Ajax in particular was interred e,ntire. Almost all the chiefs became... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 516 pages
...wisdom. Never has the protecting genius ef England been either asleep or satisfied. .. " O but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep." Now, it seems, the constitution is complete—now we are to stand still.... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1815 - 256 pages
...is reserved for a fate, compared to which all other suffering is light as air. Oh this n. MM, this man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Hear'n AS wakes the angels weep. Ever yours, EDWARD INGIEBY. •which seemed to blend indignation with... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1815 - 564 pages
...omnipotence a menial to its power, and tlernity a pander to its projects. 1 Man, proud man, dress'd in a little brief authority, 'Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, ' As make the angels weep.' " Be not a party to it ; as you have spnmed the temporal interference of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 248 pages
...still it was a place of worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But " Man, vain man, " Drest in a little brief authority, " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven " As make the angcls weep." 3. I'm- on tin' solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line 2. It was not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1818 - 282 pages
...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 candlesnuffers laugh, and his own scene-shifters... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 174 pages
...worship thrice sacred to devotion: its violation is a triple sacrilege. But « Man , vain man , <t Brest in a little brief authority, « Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven « As make the angels weep. » Far on the solitary shore he sleeps. Stanza v. line a. It was not always... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1820 - 376 pages
...to exercise at home, fell with treble force in the place where it could be most felt and deplored. Man — vain man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the Angels weep In consequence of Mr. Gunner's management, the abode of poverty was rendered... | |
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Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep. 
