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
| James Watson - 1820 - 160 Seiten
...of the noblest efforts, are suffered to languish, in obscurity and want. " All ! who can tell, bow hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud...afar? Ah ! who can tell, how many a soul sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant sla.r, — And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war: Cbeck'd by the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 278 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... | |
| 1821 - 282 Seiten
...mortal man, who livest here by toil." THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. An ! 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 wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff... | |
| 1821 - 448 Seiten
...and unknown ! Islington, April I4,I831. S. SKINNER. The steep whei e Fame's proud temple shines afarT Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war! Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, FOR ARLISS'S POCKET... | |
| 1821 - 676 Seiten
...ridicule, the same familiar truth which the poet more naturally bewails with tender sympathy: Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shir.es afar ! But one finds a similar difficulty in extricating himself from the crowd with which... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 280 Seiten
...omnia Mn-:. , Quarnm sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Vino. BOOK I. t. 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 - 1822 - 324 Seiten
...cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> 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... | |
| 1822 - 428 Seiten
...•:,;•-,' • .". , •.. - r ..:,» Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb -..; i. .'; ,,.-. -,, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?...a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant stair, -:i • '» -^ • .. • y And waged with fortune an eternal .war; . , Cheek'd by the scoff... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
...friendless child of genius has to wade, before the world smiles on his solitary labours: " Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar!" The government, far from dispensing rewards to modest worth, may be described, in the... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 Seiten
...one of those rare performances of which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " 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 wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff... | |
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