 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1864 - Страниц: 342
...absorbing flames the proud edifice which we have created, — For, '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... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1864 - Страниц: 332
...absorbing flames the proud edifice which we have created, — For, 'tis a common proof, That lowliuess 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 Drury - 1865 - Страниц: 430
...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 utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, — Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1866 - Страниц: 340
...venal quean makes the clarion to sound, and all the world is amazed. Lowliness, our Shakspeare says, 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... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 582
...platform from which to grasp at universal truths, of which he had a distant vision. But this lowliness ' is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He thon unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 586
...platform from which to grasp at universal truths, of which he had a distant vision. But this 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - Страниц: 192
...necessary end, Will come when it will come. III. — AMBITION. Bur '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... | |
 | 1866 - Страниц: 604
...platform from which, to grasp at universal truths, of which he had a distant vision. But this lowliness ' is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; But when he once attains tho upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - Страниц: 752
...dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Sh. Jul. CI 2. 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1867 - Страниц: 414
...not known when his affections swayed 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... | |
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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... 
