 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 páginas
...pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa'. 55 HBeattie 1735-1803 THE MINSTREL (1771(Selections) BOOK I 915 of which was found amonç Mickle's manuscripts has been frequently' attributed to Jane Adam, a Scotch... | |
 | Charles Carroll Swafford - 1916 - 382 páginas
...rocks of industrial unrest that have so long lain hid from sight. CHAPTER XXII A STORY WITHIN A STORY "Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime "Has felt the influence of malignant star?" — Btattie. A few days after the sad rites that filled up this Christmas day for the inhabitants of... | |
 | 1920 - 660 páginas
...stanza of ' The Minstrel ' will last as long as the English language. " That first stanza is : — Ah I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah I who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...Spectator. No. 255. g And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ANTONINUS — Med. 4. 33. 9 have seen the dumb men throng to see him, and The blind to hear BEATTIE— The Minstrel. St. 1. 10 Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven: No pyramids set off... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 páginas
...Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; 0 grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! The TcmfU of Faint. POPS Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | 1892 - 970 páginas
...course, for the old hotel régime respected age and dignity. He who could by personal experience • ' tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar " was thereby released from the necessity of climbing the stairways of his hotel above the first flight.... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1905 - 1206 páginas
...accurate phraseology, what a poet has said : "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steeps where fame's proud temple shines afar? Ah ! who can...how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of a baneful star, And waged with fortune an incessant war." This war was waged ; these steeps he climbed... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1878 - 670 páginas
...early disadvantages, and how great the industry and perseverance necessary to reach such eminence ? " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" THE FIRST VISIT OF CHARLES I. TO DEVON, 1625. BY 1-H'L Q. Iv.UtKKKK. at Paigntou, August, 1878.)... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 2000 - 518 páginas
...last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton, Lycidas. And again: How hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Beattie, The Minstrel. Finally, we can also see why the vainest of all nations constantly talks about... | |
 | Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 páginas
...ambition. Beattie's The Minstrel, for instance, with its Spenserian stanzas and its warnings that no one 'can tell how hard it is to climb / The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar', illustrates the point. The 'plan of the poem'6 (and of Keats's reading as a whole) describes a pilgrimage... | |
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AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's... 
