 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 trang
...myrtle ; — O, but man, proud man ! Dresed in a little brief authority, — Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, — like an angry...with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. Lucio. O, to him, to him, wench ! he will relent ; He 's coming, I perceive 't. Isab. We cannot weigh... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 616 trang
...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 ape, Plays such...with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal b. Lucio. 0, to him, to him, wench : he will relent ; He 's coming, I perceive 't. PBOV. Pray heaven,... | |
 | Nancy Kress - 1997 - 424 trang
...second quote in my list." Thomas brought up the words, reading them aloud in its rich male voice: " 'But man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority,...ape plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.' William Shakespeare, 1564-1616." "The next quote." " 'Man's unhappiness comes,... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 trang
...But we must leave that to others. Yet we cannot do so without recalling the words of a great poet : "But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,...ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep." And we draw some slight consolation from the fact that, even if he should... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 trang
...ages as a condemnation of what Hamlet calls 'the insolence of office': 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 . . . (2.2.120-5) The culmination of her case is a plea that Angelo look into... | |
 | Tony Davies - 1997 - 170 trang
...associations, of human pride and folly. When Shakespeare's Isabella, in the accents of the pulpit, denounces 'man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured', or his contemporary Ralegh invokes the figure of 'eloquent, just, and mighty Death' to rebuke 'all... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 trang
...it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. 10376 Measure for Measure Te As make the angels weep. 10377 Measure for Measure That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - 1998 - 216 trang
...central in Shakespeare's philosophical play Measure for Measure: "But man, proud man! / Dress'd in a little brief / authority, / Most ignorant of what...ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep." The complexity of this image had attracted many scholars, 23 who offered... | |
 | Joseph Brent - 1998 - 440 trang
...the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1891. Paradise Lost 1890-1900 But man, ptoud man, Drest in a liitle brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured....ape. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II, ii, 117 The decade of Peirce's life,... | |
 | Ann E. Berthoff - 1999 - 228 trang
...has its resemblance to the Sermon on the Mount, or to Isabella on that Representative Man, Angelo: man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,...ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence ... It is like Shakespeare to make ignorance and assurance thus vary together. And to hint that the... | |
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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 ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves... 
