Has not been difficult, then does not have attains.
His studied brilliance never quite attains greatness.
Then the apprehension of beauty has to come to us with a vigorous blow to awaken our consciousness from its primitive lethargy, and it attains its object by the urgency of the contrast.
2 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 William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.
