 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
 | 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 how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war?" BEATTIE. Can such... | |
 | 1876 - 818 Seiten
...— alas ! only too little — to do. It is the old strain so often uttered by the poetic trill, of how many a soul sublime has felt the influence of malignant star, and the wasting of intellectual perfume in the desert air. Existence is for the time enlivened to him by... | |
 | 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 !...frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low rale remote has pin'd alone, Thendropp'd into the grave, unpiiicd and_unknowu !" That every man is... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | 1819 - 304 Seiten
..." 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 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.' Seattle. " This... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...proud temple shines afar; A h ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has fek the influence of mal,gnant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd...by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, I , life'i low vale remote (i39 pin'd alone, Thendropt into the grave, nnpiUedandunknown." The health... | |
 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 Seiten
...had now escaped, and imagined myself an eaglet, capable of soaring to the sun ; but, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" Day after day rolled on, and I did nothing ; every succeeding hourdiminishingmy hopes, and sowing... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 Seiten
...GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (CONN.) PUBLISHED BY AH MALTBY & CO. No. 31.] TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1820. 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 f'rov, i>, And Poverty's... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1820 - 296 Seiten
...die of his young ambition, might have sought t* 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 intiuence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
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