Quote #50434
And now the matchless deed’s achiev’d,
Determin’d, dar’d, and done.
Determin’d, dar’d, and done.
Christopher Smart
About This Quote
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Interpretation
These lines present a compact celebration of decisive action. The triple alliteration—“Determin’d, dar’d, and done”—compresses a whole arc of agency: resolve (determined), risk (dared), and completion (done). “Matchless deed” frames the act as singular or exemplary, suggesting a heroic or morally elevated achievement rather than an ordinary task. The tone is emphatic and final (“And now…”), marking a turning point after suspense or struggle. Even without the surrounding passage, the rhetoric implies a narrative moment of culmination: intention has been converted into action, and action into accomplished fact—an ideal of fortitude and follow-through.



