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 Works of William Shakespeare - Page 18by William Shakespeare - 1812Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...violence of either grief or joy Their own enactures with themselves destroy. (Ham. in. 2.) Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (Tr. Cr. i. 3.) This effect defective comes by cause. Ham. ii. 2.) Humanity must perforce prey on itself,... | |
| Great Britain - 1882 - 202 pages
...voracious appetite of the wolf is again referred to by Shakespeare : — f/lysstt. — " Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. • The first folio reads merely " the English ;" the second folio, " the... | |
| Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett - 1883 - 1070 pages
...these modern doctrines of equality he would have apprehended that everything would resolve itself into power : — Power into will, will into appetite ;...power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And, last, cat up himself. Or if this were not the final lot which awaited mankind from these aspirations after... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 448 pages
...whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Strangways' words about parity in the commonwealth were more than Cromwell could bear. ' He knew no... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 458 pages
...whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Strangways' words about parity in the commonwealth were more than Cromwell could bear. ' He knew no... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 448 pages
...whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Strangways' words about parity in the commonwealth were more than Cromwell could bear. ' He knew no... | |
| Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 470 pages
...whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Strangways' words about parity in the commonwealth were more than Cromwell could bear. ' He knew no... | |
| Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...rather, Right and Wrong (Between whose endless jar Justice resides) Would lose their names, and so would Justice too. Then every thing includes itself in Power,...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,... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - Europe - 1886 - 364 pages
...everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite ; And appetite, an univcrsal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. All systems of philosophy may be reduced to two great classes. Everything depends upon the point of... | |
| Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (2d Bart.) - Poets, English - 1887 - 444 pages
...whose endless jar justice resides), Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. .... Mr. Bright is never tired of telling us that we constitute the stupid party (perhaps under existing... | |
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