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" 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 would ne'er be quiet: For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder.... "
Beauties of the British Poets: Being a Pocket Dictionary of Their Most ... - Page 27
1834 - 317 pages
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Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for ...

William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe - 1709 - 1058 pages
...; be content. Jfab. So you muft be the firft that gives this Sentence^ And he that fuffers : Oh, it is excellent To have a Giant's Strength ; but it is tyrannous) To ufe it like a Giant. Lucio. That's well faid. Ifab. Could great Men thunder As Jove himfclf does, Jove...
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The Complete Art of Poetry ...

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 394 pages
...As Mercy does» Ifal, llidt T'he Vanity of Power in Men. Could great Men thunder, As J-ove himfelf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting petty Officer 'Would ufe his Heav'n for Thunder ; Nothing but Thundert Merciful Heav'n ! Thou rather with thy fharp and...
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The Works of Shakespear: Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 370 pages
...tyrannous, To ufe it like a giant. Lucio. That's well faid. Ifab. Could great men thunder As Jove himfelf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty ^ officer Would ufe his heav'n for thunder; Nothing but thunder: merciful heav'n ! Thou rather with thy fharp, and...
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The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 494 pages
...tyrannous, To ufe it lixe a giant. Lucia. That's well faid. Ifab. Could great men thunder As Joi}e himfelf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would ufe his heav'n for thunder; Nothing butthujjder: merciful hea»'a\ Thou rather with thy (harp, and...
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Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour ...

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 498 pages
...ufe it like a giant. Lv.cio. That's well faid. [Afide. Ifab. Could great men thunder As Jove himfclf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty, officer Would ufe his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy (harp and fulph'rous...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Apothegms and maxims for the good conduct of life ...

Gorges Edmond Howard - 1782 - 376 pages
...other lines alfo, which are fo appodte I cannot •mil them: Could great men thunder, As JOVE himfelf does, JOVE would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer Would ufe his heaven for thunder— Nothing but thunder. * However, by our happy conftitution, if a judge...
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Measure for measure. Comedy of errors

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 384 pages
...content. 420 hub. So you must be the first, that gives this sentence ; And he, that suffers : Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous, To use it like a giant. Lucio. That's well said. hab. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be .quiet,...
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Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1795 - 418 pages
...tyrannous To ufe it like a giant. Luclo. That's Well faid. Ifab. Could great men thunder As Jove himfelf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would ufe his heav'n for thunder; ' Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heav'n! ' Thou rather with thy fharp and...
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Works, Containing His Plays and Poems: To which is Added a Glossary, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1797 - 594 pages
...tyrannous, To ufe it like a giant. Lucw. That's well faid. ISAB. Could great men thunder As Jove himfelf does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would ufe his heaven for thunder; nothing butthunder.— Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy fharp and...
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A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry and the Liberty of the Press

Tunis Wortman - Freedom of the press - 1800 - 312 pages
...destroyed by the constant habitude of desolation, and every varied spectacle of massacre and horror ? " Could great men thunder As Jove himself does. Jove...thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Chap. II. Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak' , Than the soft myrtle : O, but...
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