...amends for being a woman—I should not pass away and perish." « " But have you forgotten—• " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " " No, sir, I have not forgotten." " Setting aside the ten thousand chances against a woman's achieving...

...embodied his own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,...

...ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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...

...perculsus amore, Accipiant.— — VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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...

...prlmuta dulcet ante omnla Jftaa, Quanint tacrafcro, ingenti percultv* amor с , Aniyiant— Virgil. AH! who can tell how hard It Is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines •for; Ah ! who can tell how runny a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged...

...merely to I prove how badly talent is requited in this world ; for as a great novelist has said — "Ah, who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star 1" — I discovered, after a time, that he was connected with the press only as a penny-aline man !...

...travessa do Taio, and put an end to our fatigues, and more than realize our expectations. But— " — : who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star?" The first two do/en persons, at least, to whom we put the question as to the locale of the distin-*...

...to make us play the woman, and remind us of what Beattie sings with so much beautiful pathos: — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star? And wag'd with...

...Johnson), to the grocer's counter, and the gipsy-murderer's bacon !!!" — B. Diary, 1821.] (3) [" Ah \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," &c. — BEATTIE.] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call...

...him farther from the fountain of contentment. The aspirant for fame has not always an easy life. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? " The commencement of his progress is rugged and steep ; and he, as well as others, must bear the "...