| Edward Manson - 1904 - 538 pages
...Maule. " It is quite clear she knows a great deal more than I do." LOED ABINGER. Oh ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? exclaims Seattle in " The Minstrel," but some there are to whom the toilsome ascent is a " primrose... | |
| Wilson Palmer - 1905 - 446 pages
...confident there was no Candia boy or girl in those days who sang with the poet, — " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." No, no, for with gladsome hearts the way was made easy for all by the many loving sacrifices made by... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pages
...flight. ******* JAMES BEATTIE FROM THE MINSTREL OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS BOOK I 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... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...himself to flight. JAMES BEATTIE FROM THE MINSTREL OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS BOOK I 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, s And waged with... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 465 pages
...a correspondent to me, in truth !) — to take cold so exactly in the nick of 1 "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " JAMES BEATTIE, "The Minstrel," Bk. i. St. i. i8».] JANE WELSH 119 time ! I believe I ought to... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 520 pages
...and to treasure up their best acquirements : Ye remnants of the Peripatetic school ! Ah! ye can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar! They lived sub dio, like the birds that caroled over their heads. "But how," you will say, "did they manage in rainy... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pages
...shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? CUWLEY : The Motto. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? JAMES IÎEATTIK : The Minstrel, Book i., stanza i. What rage for fame attends both great and small... | |
| Thomas Newbigging - 1910 - 282 pages
...quotes anything of his excepting the first two lines with which his poem begins ? — Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? We are all familiar with the shrewd saying, " Orthodoxy, my lord, is my doxy, and heterodoxy is another... | |
| Carlos de Mesquita - 1911 - 284 pages
...versos sentenciosos e citáveis isoladamente, fazendo lembrar dísticos" heróicos : 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 Hás felt the influencc of malignant star. . . Hail sacred... | |
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