 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 页
...rivals. — SIR JOHN DENHAM. Ambition — continued. Ambition, like a seeled [blind] dove mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to perch on 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 - 1921 - 576 页
...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 - 1981 - 280 页
...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... | |
 | John Ford - 1986 - 392 页
...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 - 1988 - 324 页
...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 - 2005 - 324 页
...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 - 1827 - 680 页
...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 :... | |
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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... 
