...picturesque scenery ¡в general. THE FEELINGS AND FORTUNES OF A SCOTCH TL'TOlt. No. V. Oh ! who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud Temple shines afar ': THEY only, Mr Editor, whose fortunes have been of their own making, who have known what it is to...

...sleep. Names of no small renown may be quoted, who, by their own experience in this respect, knew - how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" The author of these lines himself, the amiable Beattie, taught his way through the University, aided...

...and industry. It need hardly be said this is SHERIDAN KNOWLES. To those who contemplate — How bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; How many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star ; Checked by the scoff of pride,...

...stopped at the gates of Slanmore Priory. r OR ONE, TWO, THHBK. 577 . ' CHAPTER XXVI. ' " 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 Euvy's frown. And Poverty's unconquerable...

...energy and pathos the difficulties and sorrows to which distressed genius is subject: — 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 : CJieck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's...

...be, who are not moved with the train of thought which it must necessarily inspire. " ' 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 ; Check'd by the scofl'of...

...found to hold true only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. 140 THE MINSTREL. AH I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a aoul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune...

...kindle it to a flame — his speculations were tinged with no gloomy doubt, checked by no suspicion " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." I lost sight of my young poet, who vanished into a more sequestered path, and I turned to look at the...

...BROWN, ESQ. 1,1 . D. OF THE INNERTF.MPLE.BARRISTFR-AT-LAW. (With a Portrait.) "Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SEATTIE. TRITE as this quotation is, it always comes recommended to the fancy by its truth, which...

...103 A spick and span new Sang 104 Occasional Addresses 108 IX THE INVITATION. Ah ! who can tell bow many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war '. BEATTIE. .. . .,1. .. . BLITHE and free Come hither,— come Either...