 | William Henry Pyne - 1824
...mortals must they be, who are not moved with the train of thought which it must necessarily inspire. " ' 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 scofl'of... | |
 | William Collins - 1824 - 446 páginas
...will bs found to hold true only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. 140 THE MINSTREL. AH I 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 aoul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune... | |
 | 1825
...kindle it to a flame — his speculations were tinged with no gloomy doubt, checked by no suspicion " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." I lost sight of my young poet, who vanished into a more sequestered path, and I turned to look at the... | |
 | 1825
...BROWN, ESQ. 1,1 . D. OF THE INNERTF.MPLE.BARRISTFR-AT-LAW. (With a Portrait.) "Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SEATTIE. TRITE as this quotation is, it always comes recommended to the fancy by its truth, which... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1825 - 111 páginas
...103 A spick and span new Sang 104 Occasional Addresses 108 IX THE INVITATION. Ah ! who can tell bow many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war '. BEATTIE. .. . .,1. .. . BLITHE and free Come hither,— come Either... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826
...to bear on the present state of society. . EXTRACTS IN RHYME. How Appalling the Obstacles to Merit! AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | 1826
...vero primum clulces ante omnia Musae, Quavuin sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Virg. AH ! Who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Oheck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale,... | |
 | 1826
...into decrepitude, and never become serviceable to mankind. Well may we exclaim, with Beattie, — i " 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... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827
...OR, THE MISERIES OF PARNASSUS. LETTER LXXVI. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The lteep, where Fame's proud temple 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 ; Checked by the scoff... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1829 - 340 páginas
...* er •-. fc.f> !«>•/ f,T * * JS' C.' ^ ..... tt ' *.* THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER, RN " 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 unequal war ! " THE family of Beaver came into England from the Isle of Guernsey,... | |
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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... 
