_Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII_. MILTON.
HAMLET. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
HORATIO. It is a nipping and an 'eager air.
_Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 4_. SHAKESPEARE.
The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
Drew audience and attention still as night
Or summer's noontide air.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
As one who long in populous city pent,
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. IX_, MILTON.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
_Gotham, Bk. II_. C. CHURCHILL.
AMBITION.
Ambition is our idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
_The Loyal Brother, Act i. Sc. 1_. T. SOUTHERNE.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. I_. MILTON.
Rather than be less
Cared not to be at all.
_Paradise Lost, Bk. II_. MILTON.
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.
_Julius Caesar, Act ii.
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