 | Michael Ross, Keith West - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 134 pages
...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...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 he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...from the soliloquy of Brutus just after he has pledged himself to the conspiracy: "Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.' Here we have a full, rounded period in which all the elements seem to have been adjusted, and the whole... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...estado del hombre, Como el de un pequeño reino, sufre entonces La esencia de una insurrección.4 upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost...scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend. So Caesar may; / The lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel I Vi'ill bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | John Phillips - Religion - 2001 - 276 pages
...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...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. (Julius Caesar 2.1.22-27) The kings of the earth in a coming day, following the lead of... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...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 into the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. Then lest he may,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 282 pages
...against a republican view which justif1es human intervention in the social order: But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...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 he is,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...Cœsar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof, raw your willing swords. For me, the ransom of my...Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face; Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | John Alan Roe - Drama - 2002 - 238 pages
...appear: 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...scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may, Then, lest he may, prevent. (21-8) We have of course heard words very much like these before;... | |
 | David Mahony - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 296 pages
...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...clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend ... And therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,... | |
 | Tanya Grosz - Drama - 2003 - 74 pages
...3 1. "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...scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend." Act two, Scene 1, Brutus to himself 2. "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, which hatch'd,... | |
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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... 
