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" 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 18
by William Shakespeare - 1812
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Troilus and Cressida. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 572 pages
...meets In meer oppugnancy : The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, 540 And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, 550 Must make perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when...
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The Balnea: Or, an Impartial Description of All the Popular Watering Places ...

George Saville Carey - 1799 - 300 pages
...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,...make perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up. itself." Matlock is one hundred and thirtysix miles from London, through Derby. HARROWHARROWGATE. There...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere1 oppugnancy : The bounded waters Should lift their...wolf, • So doubly seconded with will and power, 7 Without. ' Force up by the roots. Must make perforce an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 482 pages
...make u sop of all this solid globe.1 Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son shou1d strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or,...will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, 4 — married calm of statet — ] The epithet — married, which is used to denote an intimate uniun,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 242

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 pages
...emerge is that of being the last surviving agent of destruction. The moment comes ' "When everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.' History has too often — and too recently — proved to us that a false and spurious ideal may impose...
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The Friend: A Series of Essays

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 pages
...Self-interesta the one only common Measure! which taken away, " Force should be right ; or, rathe^ right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice...will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey !" * See this position fully explained, and the rophistry grounded on it detected and «x posed, at...
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Aphorisms from Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power ; Creiiltla.] Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite,...perforce an universal prey, And last, eat up himself. J 16-k § In factious struggle for pre-eminence, Order is scorn'd. The General's disdain' d By him...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 490 pages
...jar justice resides), Should lose their names, and so should justice too Then every thing inclndes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite;...will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey. This clmoK, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is, That...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself." " Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice : hide thee,...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...that string, " And, hark, what discord follows ! each thmg meets " In meer oppugnancy : the hounded waters '- Should lift their bosoms higher than the...perforce, an universal prey, " And, last, eat up himself." In that country, in the language of the writer, appetite, led on by will and power, would make every...
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