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All ambitions, upward tending,

Like plants in mines, which never saw the

a.

sun.

ROBERT BROWNING-Paracelus.

My hour at last is come;

Yet not ingloriously or passively

I die, but first will do some valiant deed,
Of which mankind shall hear in after time.
b. BRYANT'S Homer's Iliad. Bk. XXII.

Line 375.
No man is born without ambitious worldly
desires.

C. CARLYLE-Essays. Schiller.

Thy danger chiefly lies in acting well;
No crime's so great as daring to excel.
d. CHURCHILL-Epistle to Hogarth.

Line 51.
The noblest spirit is most strongly at-
tracted by the love of glory.

e.

CICERO.

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. I.

7'.

Line 263.

But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd; obnoxious first or last
To basest things.

S. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. IX.
Line 168.
Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
t. MILTON - Paradise Lost. Bk. I.

Line 261.

If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure
heap,

Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine; fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
MILTON-Paradise Regained.

u.

Such joy ambition finds.

V.

MILTON-Paradise Lost.

Onward, onward may we press
Through the path of duty;
Virtue is true happiness,

Excellence true beauty;

Minds are of supernal birth,

Bk. II. Line 426.

Bk. IV.

Line 92.

Let us make a heaven of earth.
JAMES MONTGOMERY-Aspirations of
Youth. St. 3.

w.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious

and free,

First flower of the earth, and first gem of the

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MOORE-Remember Thee.

From servants hasting to be gods.

y.

POLLOK Course of Time. Bk. II.
Just and Unjust Rulers.

But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd,
And chiefs contend 'till all the prize is lost!
POPE-Rape of the Lock.

2.

Table-Talk.

Canto V.
Line 108.

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A threefold measure dwells in Space-
Restless Length, with flying race;
Stretching forward, never endeth,
Ever widening, Breadth extendeth
Ever groundless, Depth descendeth.
Types in these thou dost possess ;--
Restless, onward thou m st press,

Never halt nor languor know,

To the Perfect wouldst thou go ;--
Let thy reach with Breadth extend
Till the world it comprehend-
Dive into the Depth to see
Germ and rout of all that be.

Ever onward must thy soul ;

'Tis the progress gains the goal;

Ever widen more its bound;

In the Full the clear is found,

And the Truth-dwells under ground.
SCHILLER-Sentences of Confucius.

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Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou

shrunk!

When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound;
But now, two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough.

j.

Henry IV. Pt. I.

Act. V. Sc. 4. It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me. k. All's Well That Ends Well. Act. I. Sc. 1. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition,

By that, sin, fell the angels; how can man

then,

The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;

Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Henry VIII. Act. III. Sc. 2.

l.

The noble Brutus

Hath told you Cæsar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
Sc. 2.
And grievously hath Cæsar answered it.
Julius Cæsar. Act. III.

m.

There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire

to,

That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than war or women have.

Sc. 2.

n. Henry VIII. Act. III. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2.

0.

'Tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

p.

Julius Cæsar. Act II. Se. 1.

Se. 1.

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition.
Pt. II. Act III.
..
Henry VI
How many a rustic Milton has pass'd by,
Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,
In unremitting drudgery and care!
How many a vulgar Cato has compelled
His energies, no longer tameless then,
To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!

1'. SHELLEY Queen Mab, Pt. V. St. 9.

I was born to other things.

S.

TENNYSON-In Memoriam.

Pt. CXIX.

How like a mounting devil in the heart, Rules the unreined ambition.

t.

WILLIS--Parrhasius.

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

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WILLIS From a Poem delivered at Yale College in 1827.

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O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside,

If I but remember only

J.

Pt. II. Line 386.

Such as these have lived and died! LONGFELLOW-Footsteps of Angels. The good one, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already

Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.

The rest is yours.

h. LONGFELLOW-Christus, The Golden Legend. Pt. VI.

All God's angels come to us disgnised ;
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after other lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the seraph's face beneath,
All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God.
i. LOWELL- On the Death of a Friend's
Child. Line 21.

An angel stool and met my gaze,
Through the low doorway of my tent;
The tent is struck, the vision stays

I only know she came and went.

j.

LOWELL-She Came and Went.

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the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing.

a. WALTON-The Complete Angler.
The Author's Preface.

Thus use your frog: put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

b.

WALTON-The Complete Angler. Pt. I.
Ch. V.

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more cam, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

C. WALTON-The Complete Angler.

ANIMALS.

The jackal's troop, in gather'd cry,
Bay'd from afar complainingly,
With a mix'd and mournful sound,
Like crying babe, and beaten hound.

Pt. I. Ch. V.

d. BYRON -Siege of Corinth. Pt. XXXIII. His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest. CAMPBELL--Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. Line 86.

e.

I hold a mouse's hert not worth a leek,
That hath but oon hole to sterte to.
j. CHAUCER-Prologue of the Wufe of
Bathe, V. 572.

If 'twere not for my cat and dog,
I think I could not live.

g.

EBENEZER ELLIOTT-Poor Andrew.

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THOS. L. PEACOCK-The Misfortunes of
Ephur. (P. 141.)

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
q. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I.

Line 111.
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
2'. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. I.
Line 221.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
POPE-On the Collar of a Dog.

S.

The hog that ploughs not, nor obeys thy call,
Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
POPE-Essay on Man.

Ep. III.

Line 41.

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POPE - The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 298.

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Kaj Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7.

Steed threatens stecd, in high and boastful neighs,

Piercing the night's dull ear.

Will. King Lenry V. Chorus to Act IV.

The Elephant hath joints, Lut none for courtesy; Lis legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

b. Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3.

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