 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 472 Seiten
...aspiring, and confident mind of Sheridan, who boldly entered the lists as a competitor. He did not feel " How hard it is to climb " The steep, where Fame's proud Temple shines afar." Recommended solely by the vigour and versatility of his genius, he was not to be daunted by the hazard... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 234 Seiten
...round the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury as this admit of justification ? I think the... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 166 Seiten
...to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The stee]> were Fame's proud temple shines afar? Ah! who can tell...sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war?" BEATTIE. Can such an injury as this admit of justification ? I... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 Seiten
...round the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 Seiten
...that species of conscious approbation which is their best reward. No man has more fully experienced " How hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar." No man has more resolutely encountered the hiss and the sting of the envenomed reptiles, whose breath... | |
 | Angus Umphraville - 1817 - 172 Seiten
...glorious field ! Far from the strifes and toils of this, Inhabit now the realms of bliss. CANTO V. " Ah ! who can tell, how hard it is to climb The steep _where Fame's proud temple shines afar." JSeattiet' Minstrel." I. What names are on the rolls of fame,... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 Seiten
...recurrence to a man's humbled condition*? To the necessity of providing for his daily subsistence ! Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; # Pope's inimitable pen was never better employed than in immortalizing the Man of Ross, and rendering... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 Seiten
...and merit are consigned to indigence and obscurity. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb TUe 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 wag'd with fortune an eternal war, Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | 1819 - 304 Seiten
...appropriate. " On this letter," says she, " I cannot look but with a tear of sorrow and reverence.," Ahi who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where...sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war.' Seattle. " This letter carries along with it another refutation... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...repeated attacks of which his life terminated in 1803. THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK 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, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff... | |
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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... 
