 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 pàgines
...specify them. • - . BEAUTIES OF BEATTIE. THK ' MINSTREL: OB, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS,, BOOK I. 1. ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an clernal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pàgines
...heart sick:" Or who find more frequent occasion to rer peat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar? . • . >• * • • i ' « . • • 'Judgment and resolution are both requisite t6 employ advantageously... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 pàgines
...tiresome to the ear, will be found to hold true, only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. BOOK 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; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 464 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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 frown, Arid Poverty's... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 pàgines
...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,...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1815 - 20 pàgines
...¿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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 372 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | James Beattie - 1816 - 242 pàgines
...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...sublime Has felt the 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... | |
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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... 
