 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 pages
...he had 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...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,... | |
 | William Cramp - 1838 - 276 pages
...corresponding sensations in the person to whom they are addressed. ILLUSTRATION OF INTERJECTIONS. Ah I 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, and Envy's frown, In life's low vale, remote, has pined alone, And... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 320 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 396 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1899 - 204 pages
...with the talents and learning of those who have fought their slow way to public confidence and learned "How hard it is to climb the steep Where Fame's proud temple shines afar," than that the barriers in the way of incompetency and ignorance shall be broken down and the walks... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 pages
...tell h6w hard it is t6 climb The steep where Fame's prflud temple shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell h6w many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the" scoff 6f Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar; In life's l6w vale... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 504 pages
...blunt laugh : " You must be wise indeed if you have discovered a royal road to distinction ! — " ' Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !' A more sensible exclamation than poets usually preface with their whining 'Ah's' and 'Oh's!'" "... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 624 pages
...on the glittering steep (" Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb!"i) has not been similarly i " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar i " BEATTIC. attracted towards the roof at the craggy foot of the ascent, under which golden dreams... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 590 pages
...is in the Spenserian measure. The keynote is struck in the opening stanzas: PRELUDE TO THE MINSTREL. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1898 - 546 pages
...the transformed Museum, in the still libraries of which he had sometimes snatched a brief and 1 "All, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?" BEATTIE. ghostly respite from books of law. Onwards yet through lifeless Bloomsbury, not so far towards... | |
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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... 
