 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. 15 — i. 3. 688. The same. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition, which o'er-leaps itself, And falls on the other. 15 — i. 7. 689. Ambition to be checked. These growing feathers, pluck'd from Ctcsar's wing, Will... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 564 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...itself, And falls on the other — How now ? what news ? " Suppose Mr. Collier's corrected folio had given this passage as follows ; — the variations from... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hore'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other — Uow now ? what news I " Suppose Mr. Collier's corrected folio had given this passage as follows... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 440 pages
...naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers1 of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'er-Ieaps itself, And falls on the other. — How now, what news ? Enftr Lady Macbeth. LadyJft. He... | |
 | United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...coward's before some unknown danger—and which almost turned him away from hia purposed crime— " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side." The words arc scarcely spoken when the "spur to his intent" appears in the person of a character... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...proper a man as any in Venice." — Shakspeare. P. 54. Whose overstrained striving o'erleaps, &c. — " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...Ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other." — Macbeth. P. 54. A Student enters. — This seene is a satire on the modes of instruction pursued... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 374 pages
...needs sufficient resolution to tread the slippery rounds of the ladder that leads to it. He says, " I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other side." With the world generally Macbeth appears, in his early career, to have stood in good estimation,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 406 pages
...a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...ambition, which o'erleaps itself," And falls on the other b — How now, what news ? a It has been proposed to read, instead of itself, its sell, its saddle.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...shall ever pray for you. 1 Subject to accompt. « lie poor cat i'the adage 1 •4. Pr'ythee, peace : you will, My noble grapes, an if my royal fox Could reach them : I have seen a medicine,^ Lady MACBETH. Lady M. He has almost supp'd ; Why have you left (In- chamber I Macb. Hath he ask'd lor... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off. Act i. Sc. 7. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but...ambition which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other Act i. Sc. 7. I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people. Act i. Sc. 7. Letting I dare... | |
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Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. 
