| Charles F. Ellerman - 1844 - 324 pages
...solitude. Winter around her — and winter in her heart ! OR, ALBA IN FLANDERS. CHAPTER IX. " Oh, 'tis excellent To have a giant's strength ! but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Measure for Measure. " WHAT means all this beating of drums — this blowing of trumpets ? What signify... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1844 - 732 pages
...power towards the poor and helpless? — shamefully and tyrannically ! " Oh ! it is excellent To ha»ea giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Whilst this proceeding was going on aï Hyderabad, Lieutenant Bnrnes was at Cabul. When the army descended... | |
| Sophia Briggs - 1845 - 988 pages
...boudoir, she found her fair young mistress pale and lifeless. And it was thus they parted. CHAPTER XV. " Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphureous bolt, Split' st the unwedgeable and gnarled... | |
| 1827 - 516 pages
...of being applauded. Such a privilege no one can accuse you of having neglected to turn to account. " Oh it is excellent * To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Was it love of truth or information, think you, that drew so many readers to your pages? If that had... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...gold, or silver ore, But wisdom—none can borrow, none can tend™ THE ABUSE Or ACTIiOHITT. 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,... | |
| Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...ore, Rut wisdom— none can borrow, none can lirtd?" THR ARCS! OT ALTHOKiTY. O. it is excellent Tc have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant Could great men thumler As Jove liJim-l! dors, Jove would ne'er t«e quiet j for every pt-It.m*. petty... | |
| 1846 - 484 pages
...school-savoring way of delivering certain passages and throwing out effects observable. She gave splendidly — " Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant ;" and we could almost imagine Lucio's reply, " That's well said," to have come in responsive admiration... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...act another. Be satisfied ; Your brother dies to-morrow, — be content. And he, that suffers ! 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... | |
| Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...the husbandman early abroad, Hasted the deer, and waved its woody head. — 1'olluk. [Bern. 9.] O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.— Shakspeare. O unblest falsehood ! Mother at all evi. [ Thou misery-making demon, it is thou That sink'st... | |
| Frederick ROWTON - 1846 - 366 pages
...nor the judge's robe, Becomes them with one half so good a grace As Mercy does. " Again : — " O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant ! " What magnificent and deep philosophy there is in this : - " We are such stuff As dreams are made... | |
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