 | 1836 - 808 pages
...an elevation beyond this — of which Beattie's exclamation is indeed too true : " O ! wbo can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?* I mean a station where the intellectual ™ay predominate over the moral — where the rational shall... | |
 | William Hempson Denham - 1837 - 114 pages
...to warn him against expecting that his bed of roses will be unmixed with thorns. " 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... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 pages
...services were but short: he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines:— "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 influence of malignant star. And waged with... | |
 | William Cramp - 1838 - 276 pages
...sensations in the person to whom they are addressed. ILLUSTRATION OF INTERJECTIONS. Ah I 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... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1839 - 410 pages
...that if a man can stoop to throw off all honourable feelings, he may soon acquire notoriety, but " How hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar." Any man may be rich who can be brave enough to be dishonest with discretion ;—as any reptile who... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1839 - 256 pages
...aware that if a man can stoop to throw off all honorable feelings, he may soon acquire notoriety; but " How hard it is to climb 't'he steep where fame's proud temple shines afar." Any man may he rich who can be brave enough to be dishonest with discretion; — as a reptile that... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1839 - 406 pages
...that if a man can stoop to throw off all honourable feelings, he may soon acquire notoriety, but " How hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar." Any man may be rich who can be brave enough to be dishonest with discretion ; — as any reptile who... | |
 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 pages
...Victoria 206 Dreams 208 The Locks of Hair 211 Praise 214 To the Reader 218 POEMS. "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - 1840 - 562 pages
...of his young ambition, might have sought to 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 influence of malignant star. And waged with... | |
 | 1840 - 368 pages
...ENGLISH POETRY. JAMBS BEATTIE. 1735-1803. THE MINSTREL ; OB, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. 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... | |
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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... 
