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
| 1814 - 310 Seiten
...all our owu. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BY JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK I. I. All ! 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, Arid Poverty's... | |
| John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 Seiten
...of Heaven that the Divinity is perceived, and not by a few irregularities of nature. " 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... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1815 - 20 Seiten
...¿ought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. ЛЬ, who can tell how hard it is to climb The sleep where Fame's proud temple shines afar .' Ah, who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant stars, And waged with Fortune an eternal war." . Can such an injury... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 380 Seiten
...to the subject and spirit of the poem." • - EDITOK. " Ah I who can tell how hard it is to clirtib The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ;...Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bat ; In life's low vale remote has pih'd alone, Then dropt into the graye, unpitied and unknown ?... | |
| James Beattie - 1816 - 242 Seiten
...ante omnla Musx, Qaarum sacra fero, ingenti perculsns amort, Acciptant. VirsBOOK I. 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 eterual war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 614 Seiten
...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...shines afar ? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
| 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
...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...shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 Seiten
...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... | |
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