| 1831 - 426 pages
...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... | |
| John Gordon Smith - 1832 - 386 pages
...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 Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star?" The first two... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...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 "... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...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... | |
| 1833 - 764 pages
...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...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... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1835 - 632 pages
...he appears I by himself, the single one of his race, who had proved how hard, and yet how possible, it is to climb " The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." Bernardo was the descendant of an honourable line of ancestors, — one of whom, nearly two centuries... | |
| 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 shines afar — Ah ! who can tell, how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged... | |
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