 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 - 676 pages
...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 - Actors - 1831 - 430 pages
...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 - Actors - 1831 - 400 pages
...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 - 484 pages
...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 - 86 pages
...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 - 714 pages
...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 - 478 pages
...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 - English drama - 1839 - 490 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...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... 
