 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
 | 1834 - 464 Seiten
...the head, instead of the head directing the feet !"] THE FATE OF GENIUS. Ah ! who can tell, bow bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple...sublime, Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE. A corner of the CANTERBURY MAGAZINE will not be ill-appropriated,... | |
 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 Seiten
...MEMOIR or THE LATE COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER, OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE. My beautiful, my brave ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1835 - 632 Seiten
...he appears I by himself, the single one of his race, who had proved how hard, and yet how possible, it is to climb " The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." Bernardo was the descendant of an honourable line of ancestors, — one of whom, nearly two centuries... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...ante omnia MuSE, Quorum sacra fero, iogeti percutus amore, Accipiant.— Virg. BOOK I. I. 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 Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune... | |
 | 1836 - 808 Seiten
...attain an elevation beyond this — of which Beattie's exclamation is indeed too true : " O ! wbo can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?* I mean a station where the intellectual ™ay predominate over the moral — where the rational shall... | |
 | William Hempson Denham - 1837 - 114 Seiten
...made to warn him against expecting that his bed of roses will be unmixed with thorns. " 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," were the beautiful exclamations of Beattie, when depicting the... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 Seiten
...fallen; his services were but short: he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines:— "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 a perpetual war!" Certain it is,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 360 Seiten
...Heaven.'—Beaumont and Fletcher. Others know the strength and feel the beauty of another tale:— ' Ah! who can fell 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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 396 Seiten
...obscurity by any, even the most powerful of envy's arts. Volt. Here I think you are somewhat mistaken ; — Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar ! — MINSTREL. So says the poet ; and I believe with sufficient truth. I speak of genius in its infancy... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 320 Seiten
...obscurity by any, even the most powerful of envy's arts. Volt. Here I think you are somewhat mistaken ; — Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar! — MINSTREL. So says the poet ; and I believe with sufficient truth. I speak of genius in its infancy... | |
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