 | 1833 - 614 pages
...of the delightful strains of Beattie, the first stanza of which would have powerfully warned him " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," The present minstrel modestly sues for leniency, and we will not be severe ; but we must remind him... | |
 | 1859 - 980 pages
...what?" " It is omnipotent !" 13 WHAT'S IN A NAME. NOVENQCE ERIT INDELEBII.E NOSTRCM. — Owid. "Alt ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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,... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...with the anticipation of rising from obscurity, he migbt with exquisite propriety have exclaimed, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SECTION IX. Literary pursuits — Appointed a Local Preacher and Class Leader — Dismissal from... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...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...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE. A corner of the CANTERBURY MAGAZINE will not be ill-appropriated, lo rescue from the perishable... | |
 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 pages
...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...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman, who settled... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1835 - 632 pages
...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 pages
...pritnum duices 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 pages
...however, 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... | |
 | President of a college - 1836 - 156 pages
...climb The sleep where Fame's proud temple shines afer 1 Ah 1 who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'a by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | William Hempson Denham - 1837 - 114 pages
...are merely 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...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war," were the beautiful exclamations of Beattie, when depicting the character of the " Minstrel" of the... | |
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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... 
