 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 166 pages
...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 pages
...— 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... | |
 | Angus Umphraville - 1817 - 172 pages
...glorious field ! Far from the strifes and toils of this, Inhabit now the realms of bliss. CANTO V. " Ah ! who can tell, how hard it is to climb The steep _where Fame's proud temple shines afar." JSeattiet' Minstrel." I. What names are on the rolls of fame,... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...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 !...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war, Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 pages
...recurrence to 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... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...appropriate. " 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...all these I 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1819 - 410 pages
...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 the scoff...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... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...ItOGKAPHlCAL SKETCH OF МЛСDONALU, AUTHOR OF VIMONDA. " Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war !" BEATTIE. MR EDITOR, A s I happen to be one of the few of your oldest readers, who am also one of... | |
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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, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then... 
