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" Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. "
The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ... - Page 22
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...more emphatic as coming from the mouth of the only truly moral character of the whole drama : — " Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thunder." But he does more— he exhibits to us the every-day working of the hot fit succeeding the cold of legislative...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...the more emphatic as coming from the mouth of the only truly moral character of the whole drama:— " Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing hut thunder." But he does more — he exhibits to us the every-day working of the hot fit succeeding...
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Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1850 - 398 pages
...convent cell : O it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. O but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...laws. 89. Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength ; But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle : O, but man, proud man ! Dress'd in...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...Isab. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, 2 petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ;...rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the un\vedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — But man, proud man ! Dressed in a little brief...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Lucio. That's well said. Isab. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : — But man, proud man ! Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured,...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...AUTHORITY. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Could great men thunder, As Jove himself does, Jove...and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarledf oak, Than the soft myrtle — O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 47, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Lucia. That's well said. Isab. C9uld great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would...heaven! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Than the soft myrtle:—O, but man, proud man! Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarledt oak, Drest in...
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Readings in science and literature

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...within your lips,9 Like man new made. Measure for Measure, Act II., Scene 7. INSOLENCE IN OFFICE. Isab. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful heav'n ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulph'rous bolt, 1 See note 7, p. 337 : limtee, an alembic....
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 620 pages
...giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant Lucio. That 's well said. ISAB. Gould great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would...for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven 1 Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than...
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