 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - Great Britain - 1913 - 668 pages
...which the Cambridge modern historian censures in Burke finds expression in the words of Ulysses : " There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never...operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expression to." This is characteristic of Shakespeare, and it is his habit of regarding affairs of... | |
 | Daniel Dorchester - Communism - 1919 - 132 pages
...Soul, pp. 65, 66). The state is a divine institution just as truly as the church. As Shakespeare says: "There is a mystery — with whom relation Durst never...operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expression to." It is this "mystery," this Unseen Presence and Informing Spirit, which gives a nation... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - Europe - 1921 - 496 pages
...sc. iii) Ulysses declares, quite in the fashion of diplomacy after the school of Metternich, that " There is a mystery, with whom relation Durst never...divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to." It is amusing to find, in an interesting essay On the Conception and Method of the History of States... | |
 | Arthur Acheson, Edward Thurlow Leeds - Bird family - 1922 - 714 pages
...providence that's in a watchful state Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold, Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps, Keeps place with thought, and...with Troy As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord. When accepted as depicting the administration of a semibarbarous army camp the covert and mysterious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 248 pages
...sc. Poly- see Abbott, Shakespearian Grammar, Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods, 200 Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There...divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. 205 All the commerce that you have had with Troy As perfectly is ours as yonrs, my lord ; And better... | |
 | Inazō Nitobe - Japan - 1927 - 228 pages
...which defy definitions of law. Most scientifically does Shakespeare say in Troilus and Cressida: " There is a mystery — with whom relation Durst never...divine Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to." Constitutional limitations may reduce a monarch's power to a minimum, but where monarchy has been sustained... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Cressida (Fictitious character) - 1927 - 220 pages
...Finds bottom in th' uncomprehensive deeps, Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods, 200 Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There...soul of state, Which hath an operation more divine 204 178 give; cf. n. 183 sooner; cf. n. 184 cry: popular acclaim once; cf. n. 187 case: shut up 189,... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...And that goes even for what he calls "the soul of state." As he says grandiloquently to Achilles : There is a mystery — with whom relation Durst never...divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. (III.iii.201-4) As it turns out, this mystery comes from a good spy system, which Ulysses calls the... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...that's in a watchful state Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold, Finds bottom in th'uncomprehensive deeps, Keeps place with thought and almost like the...divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. (m, iii, 196-204)' Nothing is unknown to the state, which is 'almost like the gods', and all authority,... | |
 | Friedrich Meinecke - State, The - 1957 - 486 pages
...the soul of the State. In Troilus and Cressida (III, 3), he put into the mouth of Ulysses the words: There is a mystery (with whom relation Durst never...divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Had Shakespeare perhaps already heard of the new fashionable theory of ragione di stato! At any rate... | |
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Plutus' gold ; Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps ; Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods, Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There is a mystery (with whom relation § Durst never meddle) in the soul of state ; Which hath... 
