As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her; SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES. The ample ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth. ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN. Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works; else, But the protractive trials of great Jove, ON DEGREE. Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In meret 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, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) * Twisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity.* #Absolute. Should lose their names, and so should justice too. And appetite, an universal wolf. And, last, eat up himself. ACHILLES DESCRIBED BY ULYSSES. 'The great Achilles, -(whom opinion crowns) The sinew and the forehand of our host,Having his ear full of his airy same, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Lies mocking our designs: With him, Patroclus, Upon a lazy bed the live-long day Breaks scurril jests; And with ridiculous and awkward action That's done;-as near as the extremest ends 'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus, Arming to answer in a night alarm. * In modern language, takes us off. † Supreme. ‡ The galleries of the theatre. § Beyond the truth. || Unadapted As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her; SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES. The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth. ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN. Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works; else, But the protractive trials of great Jove, ON DEGREE. Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In meret 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, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) * Twisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity. + Absolute, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf. So doubtedly secondly with will and power, And, last, eat up himself. ACHILLES DESCRIBED BY ULYSSES. 'The great Achilles, -(whom opinion crowns) The sinew and the forehand of our host,Having his ear full of his airy same, Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Lies mocking our designs: With him, Patroclus, - Upon a lazy bed the live-long day Breaks scurril jests; And with ridiculous and awkward action (Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,) He pageants* us. Sometime, great Agamemnon, Thy toplesst deputation he puts on; And, like a strutting player, whose conceit That's done;-as near as the extremest ends Yet good Achilles still cries, Excellent! 'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus, Arming to answer in a night alarm. * In modern language, takes us off. † Supreme. ‡ The galleries of the theatre. § Beyond the truth. || Unadapted : As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her; SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES. The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant* from his course of growth. ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN. Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought But the protractive trials of great Jove, ON DEGREE. ake but degree away, untune that string, 'wisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity. + Absolute. |