...conclusion he draws from this ground, necessitarian law itself works in a coercive, imperative mode: "for 'tis the eternal law / That first in beauty should be first in might" (H, 2.228-29, emphasis added). This rewriting of inevitability as the forceful imposition of a "should"...

...the first of powers So art thou not the last . . . So on our heels a fresh perfection treads. . . . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might.22 But Keats, possibly because he was a student of medicine, was least affected by the romantic...

...usurpation, an imperial advance in the course of which Neptune triumphs over Oceanus: 'Have ye bebeld the young God of the Seas, My dispossessor? Have ye seen his face? Have ye bebeld his chariot, foam'd along By noble wynged creatures he hath made? I saw him on the calmed waters...

...more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us, as we pass In glory that old darkness; . . . For 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might; 3 When viewed from the victors' historiography, the same change could be rewritten in Nietzsche's terms:...

...our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feathered, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right...law That first in beauty should be first in might. In broad narrative terms, the plan of 'Hyperion' is clear. But as these famous lines indicate, its...

...fresh perfection treads, A power more strong in beauty, born of us And fated to excel us ... . . . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. (212-14, 228-9) It has been observed that there are self-undermining contradictions in Oceanus's speech,...

...and greater wisdom to come justify the downfall and sufferings of the old order of gods, the Titans: "for 'tis the eternal law / That first in beauty should be first in might" (2.228-9). But the fragment breaks off abruptly at just the moment when the first in beauty (and Hyperion's...

...our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right...as we do now. Have ye beheld the young God of the Seas,108 My dispossessor? Have ye seen his face? Have ye beheld his chariot, foam'd along By noble...

...including the necessary disappearance of species: We fall by course of Nature's laws, Not force . . . . . . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. Copyright Walt Disney Productions; courtesy Buena Vista Releasing. DEMYSTIFYING DARWIN. The 1925 Scopes...

...treads, 'A power more strong in beauty, born of us 'And fated to excel us, as we pass [...] '[...] for 'tis the eternal law 'That first in beauty should be first in might.7' In September 1819, the month when he started with Hyperion, Keats plainly stated that "All...