 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...with Prance ; but secretly and afar off; and to be governed as occasion should vary. Sir John Hayward. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! Bealtie'i Miratrel. AFDELLES, in ichthyology, a name given by the... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...amends for being a woman—I should not pass away and perish." « " But have you forgotten—• " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " " No, sir, I have not forgotten." " Setting aside the ten thousand chances against a woman's achieving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...embodied his own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...prlmuta dulcet ante omnla Jftaa, Quanint tacrafcro, ingenti percultv* amor с , Aniyiant— Virgil. AH! who can tell how hard It Is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines •for; Ah ! who can tell how runny a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged... | |
 | John Gordon Smith - 1832 - 386 pages
...travessa do Taio, and put an end to our fatigues, and more than realize our expectations. But— " — : 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?" The first two do/en persons, at least, to whom we put the... | |
 | 1833 - 764 pages
...to make us play the woman, and remind us of what Beattie sings with so much beautiful pathos: — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star? And wag'd with... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...him farther from the fountain of contentment. The aspirant for fame has not always an easy life. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? " The commencement of his progress is rugged and steep ; and he, as well as others, must bear the "... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...Johnson), to the grocer's counter, and the gipsy-murderer's bacon !!!" — B. Diary, 1821.] (3) [" Ah \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," &c. — BEATTIE.] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1833 - 458 pages
...services were but short : he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines : — " Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah, who call tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 pages
...little increased ! wurkey cloud of intolerance and barbarism has obscured its Jiorizon, by the Union ! " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temples, shines afar t Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of a malignant... | |
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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... 
