| Kemp Plummer Battle - 1907 - 944 pàgines
...and to treasure up their best equipments: Ye remnants of the Peripatetic School ! "Ah, ye can left how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar!" "They lived sub divo, like the birds that caroled over their heads. "But how," you will say, "did they... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 465 pàgines
...you for being so good a correspondent to me, in truth !) — to take cold so exactly in the nick of 1 "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " JAMES BEATTIE, "The Minstrel," Bk. i. St. i. i8».] JANE WELSH 119 time ! I believe I ought to... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pàgines
...passion: \Vhat shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? CUWLEY : The Motto. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? JAMES IÎEATTIK : The Minstrel, Book i., stanza i. What rage for fame attends both great and small... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 520 pàgines
...difficulties, and to treasure up their best acquirements : Ye remnants of the Peripatetic school ! Ah! ye can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar! They lived sub dio, like the birds that caroled over their heads. "But how," you will say, "did they... | |
| Thomas Newbigging - 1910 - 282 pàgines
...who reads and quotes anything of his excepting the first two lines with which his poem begins ? — Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? We are all familiar with the shrewd saying, " Orthodoxy, my lord, is my doxy, and heterodoxy is another... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1910 - 720 pàgines
...FAME. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep w'xere Fame's proud temple shines afar? All! who can tell how many a soul 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... | |
| Carlos de Mesquita - 1911 - 284 pàgines
...decompõe-se em pares de versos sentenciosos e citáveis isoladamente, fazendo lembrar dísticos" heróicos : Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...shines afar; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hás felt the influencc of malignant star. . . Hail sacred Polity, by Freedom reared ! Hail sacred... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pàgines
...and the deep-cut marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. 1577 " Blair: Grave. Line 20C Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? tame Is the thirst of youth, —but I am not So young as to regard men's frown or smile, As loss or... | |
| 1913 - 264 pàgines
...what is fame But the benignant strength of One, transformed To joy of Many? George Eliot: Armgart. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd, it shrinks to... | |
| Buchan Landor - 1914 - 350 pàgines
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