 | Sir John Carr - France - 1803 - 302 pages
...draught of conquest maddens his brain, and excites an insatiable thirst for fresh atchievements — He ** Looks into the clouds, scorning the base degrees " By which he did ascend" May that extraordinary Being in whose hands the fate of millions is deposited reverse the gloomy picture,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 648 pages
...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 ascend: So Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 318 pages
...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 ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 410 pages
...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 ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 338 pages
...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 ascend. So Cffisar may ; Then lest he may, prevent. How averse he is to the means, by which he is to deliver his... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 ascend. So Caesar may ; Then lest he may, prevent. How averse he is to the means, by which he he is to deliver... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 528 pages
...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 ascend : So Cassar may; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quanel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 388 pages
...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 ascend : So Csesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 444 pages
...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 ascend : So. Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 444 pages
...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 ascend : So Caesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he... | |
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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... 
