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Pride and unbelief bar the door of mercy and grace; and if not subdued by the blood of the cross, will ruin the soul. Ryland. 20 "Thou art besides the saddle." "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition; which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other. " Macbeth.
At last the poor man, by dint of a chair, was mounted safely, while his fellow-stranger, a burly, coarse-looking man, equally gay, and rather more handy, made so fierce a rush at his saddle, that, like "vaulting ambition who o'erleaps his selle," he "fell on t'other side:" or would have fallen, had he not been brought up short by the shoulders of the ostler at his off-stirrup.
But if we look at the matter in that light we have a tragedy, not of republicanism, but of the "vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." With the usurper Fiesco, and the brute Gianettino, out of the way, the state returns to the good regimen of Andrea, who represents the only republicanism then thinkable, democracy in the modern sense being nowhere in question.
Her story contains the useful but conventional lesson that pride goeth before a fall, and that all earthly glory is but vanity, together with a warning against the ambition that o'erleaps itself, and ends in failure and humiliation.
Shakespeare, with his wider mind, presented many other phases of this new type of tragic theme. Macbeth is destroyed by vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself; Hamlet is ruined by irresoluteness and contemplative procrastination. If Othello were not overtrustful, if Lear were not decadent in senility, they would not be doomed to die in the conflict that confronts them.
Tressilian or his emissary any service, in so far as consisted with his character of a publican. Vaulting ambition, that o'erleaps itself, And falls on t'other side.
He wanted to be remembered, and he got his wish; but what a remembrance! That gloomy pit preaches anew the vanity of 'vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself, and tells us once more that Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust.
This was certainly a case of "vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." And it was not unique. The over-emphasis of "What shall I eat? How much shall I eat? How often shall I eat? When shall I eat?
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