 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - 418 pages
...OF GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (CONN.) PUBLISHED BY AH MALTBY & CO. No. 31.] TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1820. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's f'rov, i>, And Poverty's unconquerable har, In life's low... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...the era15 die of his 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...shines afar ? Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the intiuence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
 | James Watson - 1820 - 160 pages
...of 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...afar? Ah ! who can tell, how many a soul sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant sla.r, — And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war: Cbeck'd by the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...the ear, will be found 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...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 282 pages
...201 " O mortal man, who 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...shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...and unknown ! Islington, April I4,I831. S. SKINNER. The steep whei e Fame's proud temple shines afarT Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war! Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, FOR ARLISS'S POCKET MAGAZINE. GREEN PEAS. IN the beginning... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...ridicule, the same familiar truth which the poet more naturally bewails with tender sympathy: Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shir.es afar ! But one finds a similar difficulty in extricating himself from the crowd with which... | |
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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; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's... 
