 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...  Titan: A Monthly Magazine... - Page 811845Full view - About this book
 | James Watson - 1820 - 160 pages
...the noblest efforts, are suffered to languish, in obscurity and want. " All ! who can tell, bow hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud Temple shines, afar? Ah ! who can tell, how many a soul sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant sla.r, — And wag'd... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1820 - 296 pages
...young ambition, might have sought t* crush him in its envenomed foldings. " 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 Hath felt the intiuence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...to hold true, only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. BOOK I. 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... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pages
...livest here by toil." THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. An ! 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - 324 pages
...young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...Quarnm sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Vino. BOOK I. t. 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... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...rare performances of which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 760 pages
...Names of no small renown may be quoted, who, by their own experience in this respect, knew - how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar!" The author of these lines himself, the amiable Beattie, taught his way through the University, aided... | |
 | 1823 - 816 pages
...scenery ¡в general. THE FEELINGS AND FORTUNES OF A SCOTCH TL'TOlt. No. V. Oh ! who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud Temple shines afar ': THEY only, Mr Editor, whose fortunes have been of their own making, who have known what it is to... | |
 | 1834 - 424 pages
...and industry. It need hardly be said this is SHERIDAN KNOWLES. To those who contemplate — How bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; How many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star ; Checked by the scoff of pride,... | |
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