 | 1821 - 448 pàgines
...and unknown ! Islington, April I4,I831. S. SKINNER. The steep whei e Fame's proud temple shines afarT Ah! 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, FOR ARLISS'S POCKET... | |
 | 1821 - 676 pàgines
...cruel ridicule, the same familiar truth which the poet more naturally bewails with tender sympathy: Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shir.es afar ! But one finds a similar difficulty in extricating himself from the crowd with which... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - 324 pàgines
...the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...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... | |
 | 1822 - 428 pàgines
...•:,;•-,' • .". , •.. - r ..:,» Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb -..; i. .'; ,,.-. -,, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?...a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant stair, -:i • '» -^ • .. • y And waged with fortune an eternal .war; . , Cheek'd by the scoff... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pàgines
...which the friendless child of genius has to wade, before the world smiles on his solitary labours: " Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar!" The government, far from dispensing rewards to modest worth, may be described, in the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 560 pàgines
...dulces ante omnia Mane, qunrun. i«cn» fero, ingenti percultus unore, Accipiant. VIB.O. JiOOK I. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep whereFame's proud temple shines afar ; , Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pàgines
...Minstrel. It is one of those rare performances of which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " 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 wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | 1823 - 816 pàgines
...picturesque scenery ¡в general. THE FEELINGS AND FORTUNES OF A SCOTCH TL'TOlt. No. V. Oh ! who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud Temple shines afar ': THEY only, Mr Editor, whose fortunes have been of their own making, who have known what it is to... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 372 pàgines
...sleep. Names of no small renown may be quoted, who, by their own experience in this respect, knew - how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" The author of these lines himself, the amiable Beattie, taught his way through the University, aided... | |
 | 1834 - 424 pàgines
...and industry. It need hardly be said this is SHERIDAN KNOWLES. To those who contemplate — How bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; How many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star ; Checked by the scoff of pride,... | |
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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... 
