 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees ' By which he did ascend : So. Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees* By which he did ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel "Will bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 444 pages
...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...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees-)" By which he did ascend. CONSPIRACY DREADFUL TILL EXECUTED. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...reason. But 'tis a common proof4, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : But when he once attains the utmost...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend5: So Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 556 pages
...reason. But 'tis a common proof4, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face: But when he once attains the utmost...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend5: So Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face, 4 But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : so Caesar may : 'Then, lest he may, prevent. — And since "the quarrel Will bear no colour for the... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 530 pages
...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...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend : So Caesar may : Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees! By which he did ascend. CONSPIRACY DREADFUL TILL EXECUTED. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all... | |
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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... 
