| Adam Clarke - 1833 - 458 páginas
...services were but short : he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines : — " Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah, who call tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune... | |
| 1833 - 614 páginas
...of the delightful strains of Beattie, the first stanza of which would have powerfully warned him " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," The present minstrel modestly sues for leniency, and we will not be severe ; but we must remind him... | |
| 1859 - 980 páginas
...what?" " It is omnipotent !" 13 WHAT'S IN A NAME. NOVENQCE ERIT INDELEBII.E NOSTRCM. — Owid. "Alt ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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... | |
| Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 páginas
...with the anticipation of rising from obscurity, he migbt with exquisite propriety have exclaimed, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SECTION IX. Literary pursuits — Appointed a Local Preacher and Class Leader — Dismissal from... | |
| 1834 - 464 páginas
...the head, instead of the head directing the feet !"] THE FATE OF GENIUS. Ah ! who can tell, bow bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple...sublime, Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE. A corner of the CANTERBURY MAGAZINE will not be ill-appropriated,... | |
| Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 páginas
...MEMOIR or THE LATE COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER, OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE. My beautiful, my brave ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1835 - 632 páginas
...he appears I by himself, the single one of his race, who had proved how hard, and yet how possible, it is to climb " The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." Bernardo was the descendant of an honourable line of ancestors, — one of whom, nearly two centuries... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...pritnum duices ante omnia MuSE, Quorum sacra fero, iogeti percutus amore, Accipiant.— Virg. BOOK I. I. AH ! 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... | |
| 1836 - 808 páginas
...however, attain an elevation beyond this — of which Beattie's exclamation is indeed too true : " O ! wbo can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?* I mean a station where the intellectual ™ay predominate over the moral — where the rational shall... | |
| William Hempson Denham - 1837 - 114 páginas
...are merely made to warn him against expecting that his bed of roses will be unmixed with thorns. " 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," were the beautiful exclamations of Beattie, when depicting... | |
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