 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 790 pages
...bolt Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ; but man, proud man ! Dress'd in a little brief authority, — Most ignorant of what...spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. Lucio. [Aside to ISAB.] O, to him, to him, wench ! he will relent : He's coming ; I perceive 't. PBOV. [Aside.]... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...soft myrtle : But man, proud man ! Dress'd in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, His glassy essence,— like an angry...spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.* Lucio. O, to him, to him, wench : he will relent ; He 's coming, I perceive 't. Prov. Pray Heaven, she win... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...hellhounds on Stephano, the strictures of Isabella apply equally to both: But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.117-22) As an emblem, developed over the years... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...apposite: 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...before high heaven As make the angels weep, who, with their spleen, Would all themselves laugh morta1. (ILiU17-23) Conveniently for Isabella, the denunciation... | |
 | F.P.W. Winteringham - Science - 1991 - 194 pages
...DEDICATION For my grandchildren, and their contemporaries in all countries of the world today. ".,., but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority,...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep " (Shakespeare — "Measure for Measure".) Author FPW Winteringham [Hon. D.Sc.... | |
 | Katharine Burdekin - Fiction - 1993 - 372 pages
...Jove's: 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...with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. (2.1) XXI Two years before Burdekin's novel appeared, a collection of feminist commentaries by Mary... | |
 | Kathy D. Schick, Nicholas Patrick Toth - Science - 1994 - 360 pages
...that of the planet's other organisms to respond to it. BRAVE NEW WORLD? But man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority. Most ignorant of what he's...ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Measure for Measure Men have become the tools... | |
 | Stephen B. Scharper, Hilary Cunningham - Nature - 1993 - 124 pages
...over the works of your hands. . .. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Psalm 8:4-7 Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd His glassy...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As makes the angels weep. . . . William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure And who cares? It is hard... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...of self and others' (Watzlawick a al., 1967, 53). NONVERBAL CONTACT 'But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's...ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep.' (Measure for Measure II. 2.1 18) Posture reveals the state of mind: the... | |
 | Eugene Halton - Philosophy - 1995 - 324 pages
...be—and must not be—if we hope to remain on a living earth. 3 The Cultic Roots of Culture . . . man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep. —Shakespeare 1 "Sleep-pictures"—New word coined in sign language by an... | |
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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 assur'd, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our... 
