 | John Ford - Literary Collections - 1986 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Eugene M. Waith - Drama - 1988 - 324 pages
...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... | |
 | John Ford - 1995 - 422 pages
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 | Jim Nolan - Drama - 2001 - 102 pages
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 | Sophie Tomlinson - Drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...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... | |
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Apartment. Enter ITHOCLES. Ith. Ambition ! 'tis of vipers' breed : it 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... 
