 | R. A. Foakes - Performing Arts - 2000 - 332 pages
...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...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
...Take a sentence from the soliloquy of Brutus just after he has pledged himself to the conspiracy: "Tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's...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... | |
 | Michael Ross, Keith West - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 134 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 282 pages
...interests - against a republican view which justif1es human intervention in the social order: But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's...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 - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...to speak truth of Cœsar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than his reason. But 'tis our standards, draw your willing swords. For me, the...Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face; so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Mahony - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 296 pages
...bright day that brings forth the adder: And that craves wary walking. we put a sting in him. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's...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, would,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 164 pages
...speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed 20 More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's...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... | |
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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... 
