 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JIACDOKALU, 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. MB EDITOR, As I happen to be one of the few «f your oldest readers, who am also one of... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...OR, THE MISERIES OF PARNASSUS. LETTER LXXVI. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The lteep, 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 Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...seen afar, youth's trophies bright In Fancy's rainbow-ray invite His wingy nerves to climb. Beat tie. Ah ? who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war. Id. What is the end of fame ? 'Tib but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 366 pages
...* er •-. fc.f> !«>•/ f,T * * JS' C.' ^ ..... tt ' *.* THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER, RN " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! " THE family of Beaver came into England from the Isle of Guernsey, and settled at an... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...with Prance ; but secretly and afar off; and to be governed as occasion should vary. Sir John Hayward. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! Bealtie'i Miratrel. AFDELLES, in ichthyology, a name given by the... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...amends for being a woman—I should not pass away and perish." « " But have you forgotten—• " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " " No, sir, I have not forgotten." " Setting aside the ten thousand chances against a woman's achieving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...embodied his own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 pages
...ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! 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... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 340 pages
...perculsus amore, Accipiant.— — VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! 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... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...prlmuta dulcet ante omnla Jftaa, Quanint tacrafcro, ingenti percultv* amor с , Aniyiant— Virgil. AH! who can tell how hard It Is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines •for; Ah ! who can tell how runny a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged... | |
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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... 
