...in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,, The primogeniture and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres,...perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. — Troilus and Cressula. ADVICE. BE thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father In manners as in shape...

...in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogeniture and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres,...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...

...stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows t each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : The bounded...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is » That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb....

...place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meet* In mere oppugnancy: The bounded waters Should lift...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree is it, That by a pace goes backward, in a purpose It hath to climb. The...

...endless jar justice resides,) Should lose their names, and so should justice loo. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection11 of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb.1...

...from their fixture ! O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enteqirise is sick ! How could communities, Degrees in schools,...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is That by a pace goes backward, with a purpos3 It hath to climb....

...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...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. (*) First folio, her. • Amidst tht other;] Mr. Singer reads speciously, but certainly in error, —...

...whose 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...chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the choking. And this neglection of degree it is That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose It hath to climb....

...of discordant appetites and imagined self-interests the one only common measure ! which taken away, Force should be right; or, rather right and wrong....will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey! Thrice-blessed faculty of reason! all other gifts, though goodly and of celestial origin, health, strength,...

...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...Great Agamemnon, This chaos, when degree is suffocate It is thought that Milton might have in his mind the following passage in Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas,...