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671.
Ambition is like love impatient
First Line:
Ambition is like love impatient
Last Line:
Both of delays and rivals
DMI number:
39174
672.
Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
First Line:
Ambition is the dropsy of the soul
Last Line:
How then should souls allied to sense resist it
DMI number:
14183
673.
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
First Line:
Ambition is the stamp impressed by heaven
Last Line:
Conducts the sun and regulates the spheres
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
37441
674.
Ambition like a torrent never looks back
First Line:
Ambition like a torrent never looks back
Last Line:
And offers violence to nature's self
DMI number:
14191
675.
Ambition sighed she found it vain to trust
First Line:
Ambition sighed she found it vain to trust
Last Line:
And little eagles wave their wings in gold
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22407
676.
Ambition that near vice
First Line:
Ambition that near vice
Last Line:
And felt her faults before her punishment
Author:
Benjamin Jonson (Absolute)
DMI number:
13450
677.
Ambition the desire of active souls
First Line:
Ambition the desire of active souls
Last Line:
And elevates the hero to the gods
DMI number:
14180
678.
Ambition the disease of virtue bred
First Line:
Ambition the disease of virtue bred
Last Line:
Meets death in that which is the means of life
DMI number:
14190
679.
Ambition this shall tempt to rise
First Line:
Ambition this shall tempt to rise
Last Line:
And grinning infamy
Author:
Thomas Gray (Absolute)
DMI number:
37140
680.
Ambition's like a circle on the water
First Line:
Ambition's like a circle on the water
Last Line:
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought
DMI number:
14184
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