Is it ambition fires thy breast, Or avarice that ne'er can rest? From these alone unjustly springs The world-destroying wrath of kings.' 20 The surly mastiff thus returns: 'Within my bosom glory burns.

Ambition firstthe aim and end of life; love nextthe pleasant adjunct to success!

The queen, amidst all the schemes which her unbounded ambition forms for the exaltation of her family, finds her own son, after having received a kingdom from her kindness, restrained from supporting her, and reduced to preserve those territories which she has bestowed upon him, by abandoning her from whom he received them.

He who seeks Reward in ruling, makes ambition guilt; And living for himself disclaims mankind.

An ill-advised ambition hath put thee on this useless trial.

We bestow warmer praise and encouragement on him whom ambition impels to industry, kind feeling to beneficence, and pity to render assistance.

Such is that imitated in one of Simkin's Letters: Do the gods such a noble ambition inspire? Or a god do we make of each ardent desire? from Virgil's

Or, bold ambition kindling in my breast, Attempt some arduous task?

Without woman strife would cease, ambition languish, Venus pine to skin and bone (sweet soul!)

Next to that power which does the ocean awe, Is to set bounds, and give ambition law.

Piso that thought to climbe by bowing downe, By giving a way to thrive, and raising others To become great himselfe, hath now by death Given quiet to your thoughts and feare to theirs That shall from treason their advancement plot; Those dangerous heads that his ambition leand on; And they by it crept up and from their meannesse Thought in this stirre to rise aloft, are off.

Ambition orders palaces, but it is Content that chats for a page or two over a bower.

Thus does ambition overleap itself.[A]

He could take his choice of beauty and worth; he might even purchase a princess did his ambition point that way.

Thro' life's uncertain paths my constant guide; Regardless of the world, to gain thy praise Was all that could my just ambition raise.

Leur ambition satisfaite, its oublient leur bienfaiteur et témoignent envers lui de la noire ingratitude.(D'après CLAUDE AUGÉ.)

I, like every other man, have outlived multitudes, have seen ambition sink in its triumphs, and beauty perish in its bloom; but have been seldom so much affected as by the fate of Euryalus, whom I lately lost as I began to love him.

of all that feverish train, Fool'd by those phantoms of the wizard brain, Most wildly dotes, whom young ambition stings To trust his weight upon poetic wings; He, downward looking in his airy ride, Beholds Elysium bloom on every side; Unearthly bliss each thrilling nerve attunes, And thus the dreamer with himself communes.

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! ABNORMAL STATES The assertion that modern jealousy is a noble passion is of course to be taken with reservations.

Ambition faints from out the will; Asleep sad longing lies; All hope of good, all fear of ill, All need of action dies; Because God is; and claims the life He kindled in thy brain; And thou in Him, rapt far from strife, Diest and liv'st again.

The verse marks, as might be expected, a considerable advance in smoothness and command of rhythm over the non-lyrical portions of the Calender, and the dialect, too, is much less harsh, being far advanced towards that peculiar poetic diction which Spenser adopted in his more ambitions work.