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" The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 11
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective

Louis Dumont - 1986 - 294 pages
...Shakespeare. In the third scene of Troilus and Cressida Ulysses pronounces a long eulogy of order as degree: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form Office and custom, in all line of order. . . There is one egregious example of the segmentation of value. It is the representation of the universe...
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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 1987 - 260 pages
...To whom the foragers shall all repair, What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded, Th'unwoithiest shows as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves,...of order. And therefore is the glorious planet Sol 90 In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill...
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Einstein as Myth and Muse

Alan J. Friedman, Carol C. Donley - 1989 - 244 pages
...which reflect its hierarchical and teleological order. Shakespeare has his Ulysses make the analogy: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order. . . . But when the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents, what...
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Parallel Lives: Spanish and English National Drama, 1580-1680

Louise Fothergill-Payne - 1991 - 348 pages
...threatened with dissolution and yet preserved from it by a superior unifying power" (Tillyard 1943, 10). The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form. Office, and custom, in all line of order. (1.3.85-88) And, on the opposite side, with an allusion to the conceit of world harmony: Take but degree...
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text

Kristin Linklater - 1992 - 236 pages
...is Middle English for "world" and kosmos is the Greek word for "order, form, the world or universe." The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, all in line of order. And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd...
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Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

Jean Houston - 1993 - 348 pages
...should read the speech aloud, allowing the thundering drama of its cadences to speak through him or her. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the influence of evil planets...
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Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political ...

Alan T. Wood - 1995 - 306 pages
...enemies lay primarily not in force of arms but in moral cultivation. Ulysses' speech reads as follows: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order; In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects...
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Leibniz' Universal Jurisprudence: Justice as the Charity of the Wise

Patrick Riley - 1996 - 366 pages
...Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (anti-Hobbesian avant la lettre) in which Ulysses is made to say that The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order O! when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick Take but...
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Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer

Jeannette Mirsky - 1998 - 620 pages
...whole being would have said "amen" to the idea Shakespeare gave to antiquity's great traveler, Ulysses: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...season form, Office and custom, in all line of order. Troilus and Cresstda, act I, scene iii Is it not paradoxical that Stein, who had unearthed eloquent...
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Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination

Ian Ward - 1999 - 258 pages
...who 'towers above' everyone else in his 'good sense' and 'perception'. Tillyard, Problem Plays, p 77. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order ... How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from divided...
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