 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...future commentator, though I am unable to apply it with success to the very difficult line before us: " Drest in a little brief authority, " Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, " His glassy essence." STEEVENS. A proper punctuation, with the addition of a single letter,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak 2 , Than the soft myrtle; — O, but man, proud man ! f Drest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks before high heaven,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...thy sharp and sulphurous Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarledt 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,... | |
 | 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 : Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks before high heaven,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 444 pages
...— But man, proud man ! Brest in a little brief authority : Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His 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 : — ' When I find myself swayed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...but man, proud man ! f Brest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His 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 laugh mortal.3 Lucio.... | |
 | 1827 - 750 pages
...incapable of being guardian to any child — Surely the poet might justly say of these acts — " O, hut man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep." Surely (I speak with reverence),... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1828 - 598 pages
...his love of pomp, that, ui I have been informed by officers of respectability from the coast, he ' O but man ! proud man, Drest in a little brief authority...His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep !' Truly, if the feelings of the Governor-General... | |
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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, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an... 
