...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...

...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...

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...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...

...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...

...imperfections and the incapacity of the negroes, we dare not be base in our treatment of them. ' It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.' " Heroic South ! Home of my forefathers ! Home of my kindred ! Hope of my children, the temple and...

...: be content. Isab. So you must be the first that gives this sentence, And he that suffers. О ! it Jupiter Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune A ram, and bleated ; and the f Lucio. [Aside.] That's well said. Isab. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er...

...quicken'd, Thou giv'st them birth, and bring'st them forth to action. OPPRESSION — TYRANNY. 1. Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. SHAKSPEARE. 2. He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear, Who, in his drearest need, will fly...

...quicken'd, Thou giv'st them birth, and bring'st them forth to action. OPPRESSION — TYRANNY. 1. Oh, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. SHAKSPEARE. 2. He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear, Who, in his drearest need, will fly...

...understanding of strength in Measure for Measure, Act H, scene ii, lines 107-111, when 1sabella asserts: O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Lucio. That's well said. 1 have added the line for Lucio. The apparently sardonic context, in my reading,...