 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 352 pages
...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 By which he did ascend. Conspiracy dreadful till... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...Csesar. I have 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 upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back. Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees ยง By which he did ascend : So Ctesar may ; Then,... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd 20 More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, 25 Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may; Then... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (I, ii) 44 But 'tis a common proof ood fountain, a good well-head, Would blur no whisper,...(1. 11-13) 49 It is somebody wants to do us harm. back. Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. (II, i) 45 When beggars... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, 3 3 3 back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest... | |
 | William Stewart - Psychology - 1998 - 438 pages
...descending on it' (Genesis 28:12). Shakespeare speaks of the ladder of ambition: Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend (Julius Caesar, act 2,... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...argument. This species of sophistry happens twice in this opening speech: . . . But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. (ni21-y) The implication... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...Caesar, I have 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 upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may; Then lest... | |
 | Michael Ross, Keith West - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 134 pages
...of Caesar, I have 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 upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. Then, lest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...from the soliloquy of Brutus just after he has pledged himself to the conspiracy: "Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.' Here we have a full,... | |
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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... 
