 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Страниц: 490
...off at pleasure. Ambition, covered with specious Humility. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face . But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - Страниц: 676
...parley The sleepers of the house ? speak, speak ; — AMBITION. 'Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber —...upward turns his face : But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | James Boaden - 1831 - Страниц: 430
...pronounced aloud the following lines from the great painter of man. " O 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young AMBITION'S ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face : But when he once attains the topmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the CLOUDS, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | James Boaden - 1831 - Страниц: 400
...pronounced aloud the following lines from the great painter of man. " O 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young AMBITION'S ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face : But when he once attains the topmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the CLOUDS, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - Страниц: 484
...wear a golden sorrow. . 25 — ii. 3. 192 Humility, feigned. 'Tis a common proof,™ That lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees"... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1838 - Страниц: 86
...Imperial Power may change the conduct and character of Caesar : " Tis a common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder Whereto the climber upward turns his face, But when he once attains the utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - Страниц: 714
...not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 'Whereto the climber upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - Страниц: 478
...And wear a golden sorrow. 25— ii. !). 192 Humility, feigned. 'Tis a common proof f That lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the ba?o degreesf... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - Страниц: 490
...not known the time his passions sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - Страниц: 370
...not known when his affection swayed More th:in his reason. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face, But when he once attains the topmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
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tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did... 
