...threatened with dissolution and yet preserved from it by a superior unifying power" (Tillyard 1943, 10). The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form. Office, and custom, in all line of order. (1.3.85-88) And, on the opposite side, with an allusion to the conceit of world harmony: Take but degree...

...should read the speech aloud, allowing the thundering drama of its cadences to speak through him or her. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the influence of evil planets And posts, like...

...Shakespeare's plays. In Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses delivers a sort of poetic sermon on this order: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other, whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil...

...frees the parts for their appointed purposes. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course,...therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,...

...enemies lay primarily not in force of arms but in moral cultivation. Ulysses' speech reads as follows: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order; In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects...

...passsge built acound PtolemaIc cosmology: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Obsene degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion,...therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,...

...Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (anti-Hobbesian avant la lettre) in which Ulysses is made to say that The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order O! when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick Take but...

...years. Adams minced no words. Citing long poetic passages to make his point. he continued: The Heaven's themselves. the Planets and this centre. Observe degree....therefore is the glorious planet Sol. In noble eminence. enthron'd and spher'd. . . . For Adams it was when the planets. people. and nations moved out of their...

...whole being would have said "amen" to the idea Shakespeare gave to antiquity's great traveler, Ulysses: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre...season form, Office and custom, in all line of order. Troilus and Cresstda, act I, scene iii Is it not paradoxical that Stein, who had unearthed eloquent...

...the best known. For this reason, and because its full scope is not always perceived, I begin with it. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre...therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other, whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil...