 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 180 页
...tyrannous To use it like a giant. Lucio [AsiVfe] That's well said. Isabella Could great men thunder u5 As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For...heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt 120 Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak 124 his glassy essence-, his own frail human nature. 125-7... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - 2002 - 368 页
...man's paltry authority, how if great men could thunder they would usurp and misuse the ire of God : Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. . . . (ir. ii. no) Lear and Cymbeline — where the 'bolt' is actually thrown — the symbol of divine... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 348 页
...Cymbeline, v. iv. 13). Correspondences occur in Measure for Measure, both at n. ii. 72—80 and in: Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove...for thunder ; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! The speech vividly assists our understanding of the Vision. 'Sulphurous* points on to the similar... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 页
...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...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, His glassy essence, like... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 2005 - 1436 页
...goodness: they plume themselves with the gaudy insignia of power. Well might nature's poet say— . Could great men thunder, As Jove himself does, Jove...heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Spht'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle: O, but man, proud man, Dressed in a... | |
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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. 
