And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong — Between whose endless jar justice resides — Should lose their names,... The Philosophy of Human Nature - Page 273by Francis E. Brewster - 1851 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place f Take but degree away — untune that string, And hark what discord follows ! Each...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. — Troilus and Cressida. ADVICE. BE thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father In manners as in shape... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1867 - 504 pages
...theirheads are both one, they joll horns together. like anv deer i' the hord. Ulysses. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey. And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when decree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this nepleetion of... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1867 - 1462 pages
...herd. Ulysses. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; Ami appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with...power, Must make perforce an universal prey. And, last, eu: up himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when decree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, Men. That's off, that's off: I would you rather had...hear Cominius speak ? Bru. Most willingly ; But yet Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. \nd this neglection of... | |
| William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...the language of Mackintosh — it would end in universal destruction : — Then every thing include itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. What a natural and fine opportunity had Shakspere, if he had had the least sentiment of religion, to... | |
| 1849 - 632 pages
...imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead. Force should be right, or rather right and wrong Should lose their names, and so should justice too....perforce, an universal prey, And last eat up himself. Is not Europe in the process of realizing this picture ? Utter insubordination, insubjection to the... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power. Must make perforce a universal prey, And, last, eat up himself."* In the progress of such a principle Ulysses beheld plagues,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 588 pages
...endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate Follows the choking. And this neglection1 of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...resides,) Then every thing includes itself in power, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite,...will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, This chaos, when degree is suffocate And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, Follows the choking.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 670 pages
...endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of... | |
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