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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... "
Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship ... - Page 153
by William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 295 pages
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek ..., Volume 2

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have 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...
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Arundines cami: Sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori

Henry Drury - English poetry - 1865 - 430 pages
...and to speak truth of 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 climber upward turns his face, But when he once attains the utmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his...
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Golden Leaves from the British and American Dramatic Poets

John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...portentous things Upon the climate that they point upon. Lowliness is Young Ambition's Ladder. .... 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...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 19

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1887 - 724 pages
...and that diffidence was not the dissembled virtue so finely described by Shakespeare — " But 't is 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...
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Hamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays

L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...and, to speak truth 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 cumber-upward turns his face; And when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns...
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Shakespeare's Soliloquies

Wolfgang Clemen - English drama - 1987 - 232 pages
...to speak truth of 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 climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (I, ii) 44 But soul, I would be a good fountain, a good well-head, Would blur no whisper, climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round He then unto the ladder turns...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 3 climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns...
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Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by ...

Robert Smallwood - Drama - 1998 - 228 pages
...to further his 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 climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns...
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Dictionary of Images and Symbols in Counselling

William Stewart - Psychology - 1998 - 438 pages
...God ascending and 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 climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns...
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