| Wilson Palmer - 1905 - 446 Seiten
...the hill." I am confident there was no Candia boy or girl in those days who sang with the poet, — " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." No, no, for with gladsome hearts the way was made easy for all by the many loving sacrifices made by... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...himself to flight. * ***** * JAMES BEATTIE FROM THE MINSTREL OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS BOOK I . i AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, s And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Checked by the scoff... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 Seiten
...put the devil himself to flight. JAMES BEATTIE FROM THE MINSTREL OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS BOOK I I AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, s And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Checked by the scoff... | |
| 1907 - 694 Seiten
...certainly far superior. Its very first lines caught the public ear at once, and held it for many years : Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ! It would be impossible to quote all the eulogies that were written or spoken ; Lord Lyttelton's may... | |
| Kemp Plummer Battle - 1907 - 944 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Carlos de Mesquita - 1911 - 284 Seiten
...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... | |
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