 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...  Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page 279by John Ford - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - Quotations, English - 1916 - 540 pages
...of delays and rivals. — SIR JOHN DENHAM. Ambition — continued. Ambition, like a seeled [blind] dove mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch...clouds, But tumbles headlong down with heavier ruin. — JOHN FORD. As ambitious as Lady Macbeth. — JAMES HUNEKER. Ambition, like a torrent, never looks... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English language - 1921 - 576 pages
...passage). 22. nimble SQuibbe. See squibbe in Glossary. Cf. Ford, Broken Heart (ed. Scollard) 2. 2. 6 : So squibs and crackers fly into the air, Then, only...breaking with a noise, they vanish In stench and smoke. 23. rool'd bullet. Cf. Glossary, and note that bullet is used in the modern sense in i. 5. 164. Wheatley... | |
 | James Redmond - Drama - 1981 - 280 pages
...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:... | |
 | John Ford - Literary Collections - 1986 - 392 pages
...of viper's 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 680 pages
...the saints thou iwrshipp'st, Sfc.] SCENE II. The Palace. ITHOCI-ES' Apartment. Enter ITHOCLES. 1th. Ambition! 'tis of viper's breed; it gnaws A passage...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... | |
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