...Ithocles rehearsing his virtuous heroic role, disclaiming ambition in favour of morality which, when applied To timely practice, keeps the soul in tune,...whose sweet music all our actions dance: But this is formed of books and school-tradition; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs: strong...

...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin. 5 So squibs and crackers fly into the air; Then, only breaking with a noise, they vanish In stench...

...vanishing "in stench and smoke" (11. 6-8). He is fully aware of the way to prevent such futile explosions: Morality applied To timely practice keeps the soul...tune, At whose sweet music all our actions dance. (11. 8-10) Both the ideal and the metaphor in which it is expressed are centrally important in The...

...Ithocles in The Broken Heart as he cautions himself against aspiring to the love of Princess Calantha: 'Morality applied / To timely practice keeps the soul...tune, / At whose sweet music all our actions dance." 1 Ithocles invokes this image of rational composure only to dismiss it as failing to accommodate the...

...gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled6 dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on clouds, But tumbles...whose sweet music all our actions dance : But this is formfd] of books, and school-tradition ; It physics not the sickness of a mind Broken with griefs :...