 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...  the monthly journal - Page 81by several hands - 1774Full view - About this book
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...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. 2 " And be it so.—Let those deplore... | |
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...felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd 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 pin'd alone, » Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown. 2. And yet, the languor of inglorious... | |
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...Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an clernal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown. . *• And yet, the languor of inglorious... | |
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...Has 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 ! And yet the languor of inglorious... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1811 - 236 pages
...feel the influence of malignant star, " And wage 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, to pine alone, " Then drop into the £iave, unpity *d and unknown." Few circumstances more powerfully... | |
 | John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 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 pin'd alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ? And yet the langour of inglorious... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd 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 pin'd alone, TheA dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ? And yet the langour of inglorious... | |
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...felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd 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 pin'd alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! Some means of independence are in... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd 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 rale remote has pin'd alone, Thendropp'd into the grave, unpiiicd and_unknowu !" That every man is... | |
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...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 ! And yet the languor of inglorious... | |
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