...has a Shakespearean original. In Measure for Measure Isabella proclaims that man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what...angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens Would all themselves laugh mortal. (11.ii. 117-13)...

...comments: 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. Star Quality King James loved Measure for Measure for its obvious allusions...

...not at all certain that he was referring to Scripture. [2.2.117-19, "But man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd": While some authorities find a variety of biblical references in Shakespeare's lines in 2.2.117-22 about...

...163.13—14. Fantastic tricks: Compare Measure for Measure 2.2.117— 22: “[B]ut man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what...angry ape / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As makes the angels weep.” 163.15. heap of Glass: Compare Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,...

...silence. Who did not feel improved, then and there, by Isabella's noble plea? But man, proud man, Dress 'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what...angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep— You could make every member of the audience feel pensive, profound,...

...the paragon of animals! William Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, ii, 324—8 (c. 1603) Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what...angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II, ii, 117—22 (c. 1604)...

...With hearts created of duty and of zeal. (Henry V, II, ii, 29-31) Or in Measure for Measure: Isabella: His glassy essence, like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep, who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. (Measure...

...myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed 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 makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. We cannot...

...Measure, the Man who, Dressed 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 makes the angels weep. Like Rumkowski, we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to...

...Measure, the Man who, Dressed 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 makes the angels weep. Like Rumkowski, we too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to...