 | Francis Lathom - 1806 - 352 pages
...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, , Flays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, As make the angels weep.... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...row on each Rara Avis, Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XLV. OF IMPERIAL FOOLS. O, but man ! proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority,...angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heav'a, As make the angels weep. COME, senseless men, and view your god> Who rears on earth the ideot's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pages
...sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ; — O, but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fanlastick tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...Stultifera Navis. T2 SECTION XLV. OF IMPERIAL FOOLS. — — — — — O, but man! proud man! Brest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's...angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heav'n, As make the angels weep. COME, senseless men, and view your god, Who rears on earth the idiot's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...time by cheats and fortune-tellers to predict by. G J Paltry. ' That i> knot I rt). (Drert (Drest hi a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's...His glassy essence,) like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks betore high heaven, As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1807 - 372 pages
...suited to the nature of man, that it seldom fails to intoxicate him, and overturn his reason and virtue. —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 Hear'n, As... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 454 pages
...Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — O, but man, proud man, — Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's...glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastick tricks before high Heaven ; As make the angels weep ! Lucio. O, to him, to him, wench :... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1808 - 240 pages
...suited to the nature of man, that it seldom fails to intoxicate him, and overturn his reason and virtue. -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 tiigh Heav'n, As... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1809 - 338 pages
...sulphurous bolt Split 'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, * Bac. de Augm. Sclent. Than the soft myrtle : O but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven ' As make the angels weep. SHAKESPEARE*. This imputation of tyranny and cruelty hath at different periods... | |
 | Elizabeth Wright Macauley - 1810 - 40 pages
...with thy sharp and sulph'rous bolt Slit'stthe unwedgeable and knarlled oak, Than the soft myrtle—Oh! but man, proud man, (Drest in a little brief authority,...essence) like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks befqre high Heaven, As make the Angels weep, who with our spleen, Would all themselves laugh mortal.... | |
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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... 
