Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility,... The Plays of William Shakespeare - Page 12by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doublv seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an...himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suflbcate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...companies. 5 The termination ble is often thus used by Shakspeare for ed. But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string,...degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection1 of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb.2 The general's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 592 pages
...place ? And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets Take but degree away, untune that string, In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift...prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, Follows the choking. This chaos, when degree is suffocate, And this neglection 1 of degree it is, That... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and ?o should justice too. Then every thing includes itself...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is, That... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, an universal wolf, 80 doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce...the choking. And this neglection of degree it is, 'That by a pace goes backward,3 with a purpose It hath to climb.4 The general's disdain'd By him one... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, e , Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite,...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. This chaos, when degree is suffocate, , Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is, That... | |
| 1840 - 740 pages
...of the avenging Nemesis be heard approaching. Then came the day of" blackness and utter darkness." " Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into...make perforce an universal prey, And last, eat up himself."-)Mr. Jesse has modestly given to his volumes the title of Memoirs, a word of meaning so little... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into...Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up itself. SHAKSPE.VKE. Wit arr Srbrn. A SIMPLE child, That lightly draws its breath, That feels its life... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 398 pages
...appetite ; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey. And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,...the choking : And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb. The general 's disdain'd By him one... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 606 pages
...and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string,...universal prey, And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, 3 Qnite from their FIXCKK !] The modern reading is fixture ; but Shakespeare's word is " fixure," and... | |
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