 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 Seiten
...pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa'. 55 HBeattie 1735-1803 THE MINSTREL (1771(Selections) BOOK I 915 Has felt the influence of malignant star, of which was found amonç Mickle's manuscripts has been frequently'... | |
 | 1920 - 660 Seiten
...stanza of ' The Minstrel ' will last as long as the English language. " That first stanza is : — Ah I 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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...Spectator. No. 255. g And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ANTONINUS — Med. 4. 33. 9 have seen the dumb men throng to see him, and The blind to hear BEATTIE— The Minstrel. St. 1. 10 Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven: No pyramids set off... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 Seiten
...Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; 0 grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! The TcmfU of Faint. POPS 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, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff... | |
 | 1892 - 970 Seiten
...course, for the old hotel régime respected age and dignity. He who could by personal experience • ' tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar " was thereby released from the necessity of climbing the stairways of his hotel above the first flight.... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1905 - 1206 Seiten
...accurate phraseology, what a poet has said : "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steeps where fame's proud temple shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of a baneful star, And waged with fortune an incessant war." This war was waged... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1878 - 670 Seiten
...early disadvantages, and how great the industry and perseverance necessary to reach such eminence ? " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" THE FIRST VISIT OF CHARLES I. TO DEVON, 1625. BY 1-H'L Q. Iv.UtKKKK. at Paigntou, August, 1878.)... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 2000 - 518 Seiten
...last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton, Lycidas. And again: How hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Beattie, The Minstrel. Finally, we can also see why the vainest of all nations constantly talks about... | |
| |
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... 
