 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...  Public Characters - Seite 4711804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 484 Seiten
...:" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 Seiten
...:" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
 | 1806 - 184 Seiten
...Judgment.— Dr. Glynn ... 130 THE WREATH. THE MINSTKEL: THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines alar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd... | |
 | 1807 - 442 Seiten
...votaries peace and happiness. Let us then not sigh, but let us rejoice, when we say 1 " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's...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 frown, And poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 Seiten
...perhaps, induce him to quit the pursuit of an object "i*» hard to gain, so easy to be lost." Ah ' who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, bj Envy's frown. And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then drop!... | |
 | James Beattie, Thomas Gray - 1809 - 414 Seiten
...them. • - . BEAUTIES OF BEATTIE. THK ' MINSTREL: OB, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS,, BOOK I. 1. ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an clernal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 Seiten
...Or who find more frequent occasion to rer peat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar? . • . >• * • • i ' « . • • 'Judgment and resolution are both requisite t6 employ advantageously... | |
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 Seiten
...will be found to hold true, only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. BOOK I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 464 Seiten
...sick:" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
 | Jane Harvey - 1812 - 894 Seiten
...OF ETHELIA, TYM MOUTH CASTLE, . . V, r.NOIl OF BELLEvILLE, WARKFIELD CASTLK, &C. &0. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb ' The steep where Fame's proud temple shines arar : ' Ah I who can tell how many a son! iiiblime Has felt the influence of malignant slur, * And... | |
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