ALPS.

that moves or feels in all the waste of weary precipice, darkening five thousand feet of the blue depth of heaven. Ruskin.

ALPS-Arrangement of the..

AMBITION.

and to the rest of Europe noble and navigable rivers. Ruskin.

ALPS-Grandeur of the.

Above me are the Alps.
The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,
And throned eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls
The avalanche the thunderbolt of snow!
All that expands the spirit, yet appals,
Gather around these summits, as to show
How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave
vain man below.
Byron.

AMAZEMENT.
But look! Amazement on my mother sits;
O step between her and her fighting soul!
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Shakspeare.

AMBIGUITY.

But the longer I stayed among the Alps, and
the more closely I examined them, the more I
was struck by the one broad fact of there being
a vast Alpine plateau, or mass of elevated land,
upon which nearly all the highest peaks stood
like children set upon a table, removed, in
most cases, far back from the edge of the
plateau, as if for fear of their falling. And
the result of this arrangement is a kind of
division of the whole of Switzerland into an
upper and lower mountain-world; the lower
world consisting of rich valleys bordered by
steep but easily accessible wooded banks of
mountain, more or less divided by ravines,
through which glimpses are caught of the
higher Alps; the upper world, reached after
the first steep banks, of 3,000 or 4,000 feet in
beight, have been surmounted, consisting of
comparatively level but most desolate traces
of moor and rock, half covered by glacier, and
stretching to the feet of the true pinnacles of
the chain. It can hardly be necessary to point
out the perfect wisdom and kindness of this
arrangement, as a provision for the safety of
the inhabitants of the high mountain regions.
If the great peaks rose at once from the deepest
valleys, every stone which was struck from the
pinnacles, and every snow-wreath which slipped
from their ledges, would descend at once upon
the inhabitable ground, over which no year
would pass without recording some calamity
of earth-slip or avalanche. Besides this, the
masses of snow, cast down at once into the
warmer air, would all melt rapidly in the
spring, causing furious inundations of every
great river for a month or six weeks. All
these calamities are prevented by the peculiar
Alpine structure which has been described.
The broken rocks and the sliding snow of the
high peaks, instead of being dashed at once
to the vales, are caught upon the desolate
shelves or shoulders which everywhere sur-
round the central crests. The soft banks
which terminate these shelves, traversed by
no falling fragments, clothe themselves with
richest wood; while the masses of snow heaped
upon the ledge above them, in a climate neither Inspiration lifts him from the earth.

Let's keep them,
In desperate hope of understanding us;
Riddles and clouds are very lights of speech.
I'll veil my careless anxious thoughts, as 'twere,
In a perspicuous cloud, that so I may
Whisper in a loud voice, and even be silent
When I do utter words.

so warm as to thaw them quickly in the spring, nor so cold as to protect them from all the power of the summer sun, either form themselves into glaciers or remain in slowly-wasting I fields even to the close of the year in either case supplying constant, abundant, and regular streams to the villages and pastures beneath,

Cartwright.

AMBITION.
Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall.
Raleigh.

If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all.

AMBITION-Anguish of

Queen Elizabeth.

Ambition! deadly tyrant!

Inexorable master! what alarms,
What anxious hours, what agonies of heart,
Are the sure portion of thy gaudy slaves?
Cruel condition! could the toiling hind,
The shivering beggar, whom no roof receives,
wet with the mountain shower, and crouching

low

Beneath the naked cliff, his only home;
Could he but read the statesman's secret breast,
But see the horrors there, the wounds, the stabs,
From furious passions and avenging guilt,
He would not change his rags and wretchedness,
For gilded domes and greatness!
Mallet.
AMBITION-Aspirations of.

That spirit of his,

Shakspeare.

It is not for man to rest in absolute con. tentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations, as the sparks fly upwards, unless he has brutified his nature, and quenched the spirit of immortality, which is his portion. Southey.

AMBITION.

AMBITION-Characteristics of.

Accurst.

Eagle-wing'd.

AMBITION.

the eagle-winged pride Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts. Shakspeare. Envious. Envious ambition ne'er slakes her thirst. Marston.

accurst ambition How dearly have I bought you! Dryden. Airy. Airy ambition, ever soaring high. Sheffield. Ever-craving. Ambition, restless, ever-craving The pangs of balked ambition. Parlby. Welsted. oh, false ambition, Baneful. Why dost thou court that baneful Thou lying phantom, whither hast thou lured? pest ambition? Browne. Potter.

Balked.

False.

fiend.

Base. Oh that a breast so fair, should be the Fatal. Fatal ambition! say what wondrous

Black.

Blind.

seat

cause.

charms

Of base ambition Tighe. Delude mankind, to toil for thee in arms! Rowe. Big. No more shall big ambition bend my brow. Lee. Fell. The tyrant's empty fame; offspring black ambition stains a public impure Of fell ambition Awbrey. Pope. blind ambition quite mistakes Foul. Virtue is choak'd with foul ambition. her road. Young. Shakspeare. As hoodwinked falcons boldest pierce muse on empires' fallen state, the skies, And frail ambition's hapless fate. J. Warton. Th' ambition that is blindest highest flies. Colton. gigantic phantom of the Blown. No blown ambition doth our arms Shakspeare.

Bold.

incite.

Brave.

Frail.

Gigantic.

Glorious.

Haughty.

Headlong.

Ill-weaved.

Impatient.

Insane.

Mad.

brain,

Ambition, breeding monstrous hopes and fears. Phillips.

Maď'ning.

Obstinate.

Dennis. Powerful.

ambition. Dark. The dark ambition of a villain. Joanna Baillie. Through all the rugged roads of barren lore. Dire. There endless strife, there dire ambition Armstrong. reigns. Ambition, thou powerful source of Divine. spirit with divine ambition good and ill. Young. puft. Shakspeare. Proud. Proud ambition is but a beggar Daniel. Dropsy'd. The dropsy'd thirst of empire, wealth, or fame. Nugent. Proud-crested fiend, the world's Eager. Eager ambition's fiery chace. Young. worst foe, ambition. Eagle-eyed. The towering hope of eagle-eyed

The generous warmth, that prompts to worthy deeds. Gifford. empty shows, and senseless noise, And all that rank ambition breeds

Cowley. Rash. Towns turned to ashes, fanes involved in fire! These deeds the guilt of rash ambition tell.

Restless.

Ruthless.

me.

AMBITION.

ambition idly vain; Revenge and malice swell her train. Penrose. Vast. Your vast ambition leaves no fame for Dryden. Vaulting. Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. Shakspeare. Vile. Ah, vile ambition, how dost thou deceive! Drayton. Uncontroll'd ambition grasps at

Uncontroll'd.

Fawkes. once, restless ambition, never at a Dominion absolute, and boundDaniel. less wealth. Hannah More. ambition, restless, ruth Uncurbed. Uncurbed ambition, unresisting

sloth, And base dependence, are the fiends accurst. Mason.

stand. less fiend. Parlby. Sacred. O sacred hunger of ambitious mindes! Spenser. Self-will'd. Dungeons and thrones, which the Wakeful. Within his breast as in a palace, lie, same hours refill'd As heretofore; because ambition was self-will'd. Byron.

Senseless. Senseless ambition, that forgets or
Sky-aspiring. Ambition, sky-aspiring, led him

on.

Wakeful ambition, leagued with
P. Fletcher.

hasty pride.

White-rob'd. White-rob'd ambition leads, igno

bly proud,

To cringe for votes, and coax the fickle crowd. Howes.

Smart. Wild. Wild ambition loves to slide, not

For the charms of treacherous ambition. Smollet. Turbulent. Where lust and turbulent ambition reign,

Death took swift vengeance.

Young. Tyrannical. Painted deceit, tyrannical ambiChase these far from you. There are few men who are not ambitious Bowring. of distinguishing themselves in the nation or Of that great master of the world who wept For other worlds to conquer. I'd have liv'd An age of sinless glory, and gone down Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and for- Storied, and epitaphed, and chronicled, gets the obligations of gratitude.