 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 pages
...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 - 304 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...which his life terminated in 1803. THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. 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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1820 - 296 pages
...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 Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the intiuence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | 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 Temple shines, afar? Ah ! who can tell, how many a soul sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant sla.r, — And wag'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pages
...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 Fame's proud temple shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with... | |
 | 1821 - 676 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - 324 pages
...cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...omnia Mn-:. , Quarnm sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Vino. BOOK I. t. 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... | |
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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... 
