...own motives. The answer raises new doubts, and there is a note of resignation in his retrenchment: 'I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only . . .' (25-6). Ambition is there, but evidently not in sufficient measure to justify such action. We...

...his taking-off; and pity, like a naked new-born babe, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, and tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur to prick...sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'er leaps itself and falls on the other. . FUJIN MACBETH, (stepping into the light) Was the hope drunk,...

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...has dissolved. But Macbeth's speech does not end there, his argument is sustained in simple metaphor: I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition ... (25-7) The whole passage is, of course, constructed out of metaphor, but in a peculiar way: the...

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...new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's Cherubins (L), hors'd Upon the sightless couriers (L) of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,...— I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent (L), but only Vaulting ambition (L), which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other . . . It is tempting...

...personal survival, Botha gravely damaged his nation. The Narcissistic Personality and the End of Life I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself — Shakespeare, Macbeth The love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt, Political...

...Shakespeare satirizes the pursuit, notably from the vantage point of the aggressive male ego, when he writes, "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erlaps itself, and falls on the other." By no means blessed with Shakespeare's gift for double entendre,...