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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... "
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by Several Hands - 1771
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Then dropp'd into the grave, unpitied and unknown! And yet the languor of inglorious...
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The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

Mark Akenside - 1878 - 792 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Thendropt into the grave, unpitiudand unknown ! n. And yet the languor of inglorious...
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The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern

John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Then dropp'd into the grave, unpitied and unknown I And yet the languor of inglorious...
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An Empire of Information: Uniting Four Regions of Thought ...

John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...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 dropped into the grave, unpitied and unknown. Governments have nearly always...
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The poetical works of James Thomson, James Beattie, Gilbert West and John ...

James Thomson - 1881 - 502 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! IL And yet the languor of inglorious...
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Annals of the Church and Parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire

Charles Augustus Hulbert - Almondbury (England) - 1882 - 730 pages
...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 dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! A century has wrought a vast difference...
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Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ...

Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Then dropp'd into the grave, unpitied and unknown P 2 And yet the languor of inglorious...
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One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices

David Herschell Edwards - English poetry - 1883 - 402 pages
...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 dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown. " Mr Inglis' poems display both fancy...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English and American Poetry from Chaucer to ...

Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...felt the influence of 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 remote has pined alone, Then dropp'd into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! James Beattie TO THE MEMORY OF...
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Of philosophy in the poets, lecture

James Hutchison Stirling - English poetry - 1885 - 60 pages
...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 dropped into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! " But I may take the poets of...
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