 | John Gordon Smith - Portugal - 1832 - 386 pages
...travessa do Taio, and put an end to our fatigues, and more than realize our expectations. But— " — : 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?" The first two do/en persons, at least, to whom we put the... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...only lead him farther from the fountain of contentment. The aspirant for fame has not always an easy life. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? " The commencement of his progress is rugged and steep ; and he, as well as others, must bear the "... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 764 pages
...to make us play the woman, and remind us of what Beattie sings with so much beautiful pathos: — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star? And wag'd with... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...Johnson), to the grocer's counter, and the gipsy-murderer's bacon !!!" — B. Diary, 1821.] (3) [" Ah \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," &c. — BEATTIE.] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...little increased ! wurkey cloud of intolerance and barbarism has obscured its Jiorizon, by the Union ! " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temples, shines afar t Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of a malignant... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1833 - 458 pages
...services were but short : he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines : — " Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah, who call tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune... | |
 | English essays - 1833 - 614 pages
...of the delightful strains of Beattie, the first stanza of which would have powerfully warned him " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," The present minstrel modestly sues for leniency, and we will not be severe ; but we must remind him... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...with the anticipation of rising from obscurity, he migbt with exquisite propriety have exclaimed, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SECTION IX. Literary pursuits — Appointed a Local Preacher and Class Leader — Dismissal from... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...the head, instead of the head directing the feet !"] THE FATE OF GENIUS. Ah ! who can tell, bow bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ! BEATTIE. A corner of the CANTERBURY MAGAZINE will not be ill-appropriated, lo rescue from the perishable... | |
 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 pages
...MEMOIR or THE LATE COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER, OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE. My beautiful, my brave ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman, who settled... | |
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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... 
