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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. "
Lyrisches im Shakspere - Page 40
by Wilhelm Steuerwald - 1881
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Lucio. That's well said. hut-. he is about the house. Duke. Seek him out, and play...shall love, In the sweet pangs of it, remember me: o ik, ' ') Than the soft myrtle; — O, but man, proud man! -°) Drest in a little brief authority;...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...tribunal, we may find ourselves to-day in Cork or Dublin, and to-morrow, as Cobbett says, in Botany Bay ! " Could great men thunder, As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For e^cry pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder; Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven...
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The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature ..., Volumes 5-6

Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...is tyrannous To use it like a giant, Lucia. — That's well said. Isah — Could great men thuuder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use bis heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. • .Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To us e it like a giant. LMC'IQ. Thai's well said. I--.'.'1'. Tha@ pelting,1 petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. • Merciful heaven...
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Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 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...rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. O but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority,...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 21

Theology - 1837 - 424 pages
...: we must refer to that glorious passage, which we cannot stop to quote at length, beginning — " Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and...the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle ; " &c. And then, once more, the passage where she appeals to Angelo's conscience, beginning with "...
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Truth without fiction, and religion without disguise; or, The two Oxford ...

Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...into submission and peace, he exclaimed — , • . 3i\Ji',".'\ 'i •;•••, " Merciful Heav'n ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle.' SHAKSPEARB. " I will be content to be a green myrtle flourishing lowly in the shade. Eugenia has resolved...
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Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...judge more severely than God : Merciful Heaven, Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the 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...
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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...cocks. (King Lear. 3.2.1-3) Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would never be quiet, 225 For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder, Nothing but thunder ! (Mnuurefor Mauun. 2.2.1 10- 14) The emotions are different, the people are different, the genres...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. LUC1o [Aside] That's well said. ISABELLA Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, 115 99 now] 1 ; ncw C<dlier 102 here] r; ere Ilanincr; where Mulone 115 nc'er] F2; never F 96 answered...
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