| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1864 - 342 pages
...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 - Cheshire (England) - 1864 - 332 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1865 - 430 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 utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, — Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees... | |
| George Augustus Sala - Painters - 1866 - 340 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1866 - 582 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...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 - 192 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1866 - 604 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...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 - 414 pages
...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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