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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 29
by William Shakespeare - 1809
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

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 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; / The...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

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...
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Exploring Revelation: An Expository Commentary

John Phillips - Religion - 2001 - 276 pages
...himself has other ideas about the kind of religion suitable for mankind. As Brutus said of Caesar: That lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Whereto...climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the utmost round. He then unto the ladder turns his back. Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 44

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...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...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

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; back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest...
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Shakespeare and Machiavelli

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 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...
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Excel Preliminary English

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...the upmost round. He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend ... And therefore think...
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Shakespeare Made Easy: Julius Caesar

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 round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend." Act two, Scene 1, Brutus...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Kenneth Muir - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 224 pages
...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 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...
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Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy

Irving Ribner - Art - 2005 - 232 pages
...power must inevitably corrupt the most virtuous man and make a tyrant of him: But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto...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...
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