 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 sider
...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...scorning the base degrees § By which he did ascend : So Ctesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | National Tax Association - 1917 - 472 sider
...political aspirant who uses them as a stepping stone to power and who, like the climber on the ladder, "When he once attains the upmost round, he then unto...scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. ' ' Each of the agencies enumerated could be a means of considerable help and a mighty influence in... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 sider
...common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the cumber-upward turns his face; And when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto...may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 sider
...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...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 lest... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...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. (II, i) 45 When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death... | |
 | Lionel Kelly - 1995 - 399 sider
...remember, his own career; for oo Lowliness is voung ambition's ladder, JO Whereto the climber — upward turns his face : But, when he once attains the upmost...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. But the readiness with which literary men have ever been willing to persecute their less successful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 sider
...Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, 3 3 3 colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these... | |
 | Penry Williams - 1998 - 650 sider
...might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, . . . But when he once attains the upmost round, He then...he may, prevent. And since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is. Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Would run to these and these... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - 1998 - 228 sider
...argument. This species of sophistry happens twice in this opening speech: . . . But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. (ni21-y) The implication is clear. Caesar, despite all appearances to the contrary, has, for years... | |
 | William Stewart - 1998 - 438 sider
...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...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend (Julius Caesar, act 2, scene. 1, 1. 21.) The Egyptians often buried their dead with amulets of ladders,... | |
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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... 
