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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. Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable... "
The Mysterious Freebooter, Or The Days of Queen Bess: A Romance - Page 457
by Francis Lathom - 1828 - 854 pages
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Measure for measure. Comedy of errors

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thun-- der Merciful heaven ! .oo Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : O, but man, proud man, (Drest in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 12

1808 - 556 pages
...sua fulmina mittat Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit. " I. 1 27. And again, " Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. " ' There is much affinity between the above lines and these in Persius, sat. ii. " Ignovisse putas,...
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Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks ...

John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...(which was before proposed by Mr. Tyrrwhitt) is right. P. 51. — *0. — 240. . ' Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st...gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ; — But man, proud man ! Dress'd, &c. As a word is manifestly wanted, I would receive the reading of the second folio...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...every pelting, 1 petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing t thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, 2 Than the soft myrtle ;—O, but man, proud man Brest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant...
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Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ...

E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...confounding the auxiliary verbs shall and will. The thought occurs in another place : " Merciful heaven \ " Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, " Split'st the unwedgeable and knarled oak, " Than the soft myrtle." Measure for Measure. 234. " To tear with thunder the rcidc cheeks...
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The Mysterious Freebooter: Or, The Days of Queen Bess. A Romance ...

Francis Lathom - 1806 - 352 pages
...every pelting, petty officer, Would use his Heaven for thunder! Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak *I, Than the soft myrtle ; — O, but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant...
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Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: With ..., Volume 1

Francis Douce - 1807 - 552 pages
...homines sua fulmina initial Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis eriL" Sc. 2. p. 240. I«AB. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak. Than the soft myrtle. There is much affinity between the above lines and these in Persius, sat. ii. : " Ignovisse putas,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pages
...every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st...unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle ; — O, but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority ; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,...
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 454 pages
...pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. — Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st...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 most...
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