 | William Hayley - 1812 - 464 pagina’s
...the heart sick:" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
 | Jane Harvey - 1812 - 894 pagina’s
...J4JVE AUTHOR OF ETHELIA, TYM MOUTH CASTLE, . . V, r.NOIl OF BELLEvILLE, WARKFIELD CASTLK, &C. &0. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb ' The steep where Fame's proud temple shines arar : ' Ah I who can tell how many a son! iiiblime Has felt the influence of malignant slur, * And... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pagina’s
...conscience, all our owu. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BY JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK I. I. All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, Arid Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 pagina’s
...arrangements of Heaven that the Divinity is perceived, and not by a few irregularities of nature. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...malignant star, And waged 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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1815 - 20 pagina’s
...¿ought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. ЛЬ, who can tell how hard it is to climb The sleep where Fame's proud temple shines afar .' Ah, who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant stars, And waged with Fortune an eternal war." . Can such an injury... | |
 | James Beattie - 1816 - 242 pagina’s
...primnm dalcea ante omnla Musx, Qaarum sacra fero, ingenti perculsns amort, Acciptant. VirsBOOK I. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eterual war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 372 pagina’s
...Gothic structure and original, to bear some'relation to the subject and spirit of the poem." EDITOR. « Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...sublime Has felt the influence of 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 608 pagina’s
...round the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " 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 ?" Can such an injury... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 380 pagina’s
...to the subject and spirit of the poem." • - EDITOK. " Ah I who can tell how hard it is to clirtib The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ;...sublime Has felt the influence of 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... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 472 pagina’s
...aspiring, and confident mind of Sheridan, who boldly entered the lists as a competitor. He did not feel " How hard it is to climb " The steep, where Fame's proud Temple shines afar." Recommended solely by the vigour and versatility of his genius, he was not to be daunted by the hazard... | |
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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... 
