...circumstances, must not be lost sight of. To others who, like Campbell, have felt, or have yet to feel — -How hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar," — his example will be a source of comfort and encouragement. To all who, by the same rugged path,...

...oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? 117. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune...

...contingencies of weather. 193 Stettkif. BBATTIE begins his Minstrel, I think, by singing — " Oh ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ;" and Lord Bacon observes, in one of his Essays, "the rising into place is laborious;" while the experience...

...youth, and were then taught to refer to a prctty high antiquity. OPENING STANZAS OF "THE MINSTREL." Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb' The steep...who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influenee of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of Pride,...

...the hill of knowledge. Thanks, a thousand times, for that piece of midnight mischief! CHAPTEB IT. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" This is the utterance extorted by the pangs of intellectual labour. How exquisitely must it have...

...descent. Of this charming poem we annex the opening of the first part:— OPENING OF THE MINSTREL. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's prond temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant...

...are necessitated to wade ere the victory of a deathless reputation is attained — when we consider " How hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar " — when we reflect on the poverty by which great minds are subdued, the nipping misfortunes with...

...an exceedingly fat Dutch woman perspiring up the hill, and the expression of her face seemed to say, "Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep!" However, a paradise proved the goal of my labors, and I realized once that the desirable is sometimes...

...take place in successive lines, but in such as are placed at some distance from each other : as, N " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff...

...to ascend the hill of knowledge. Thanks, a thousand times, for that piece of midnight mischief ! " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " This is the utterance extorted by the pangs of intellectual labour. How exquisitely must it have...