 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...marble, Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. 1577 " Blair: Grave. Line 20C Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? tame Is the thirst of youth, —but I am not So young as to regard men's frown or smile, As loss or... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...the benignant strength of One, transformed To joy of Many? George Eliot: Armgart. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd, it shrinks to... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...When our gudeman's awa'. 55 1735-1803 THE MINSTREL (1771-1774) (Selections) BOOK I Ah! who can tell f my days in this dark world and wide. And that one talent which is deat Ah! Who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, of which was found... | |
 | 1920 - 660 pages
...Minstrel ' will last as long as the English language. " That first stanza is : — Ah I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah I who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ANTONINUS — Med. 4. 33. 9 Ah! who can tell b men throng to see him, and The blind to hear BEATTIE— The Minstrel. St. 1. 10 Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven: No pyramids set off... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...die unknown ; 0 grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! The TcmfU of Faint. POPS 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... | |
 | 1892 - 970 pages
...for the old hotel régime respected age and dignity. He who could by personal experience • ' tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar " was thereby released from the necessity of climbing the stairways of his hotel above the first flight.... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1878 - 670 pages
...disadvantages, and how great the industry and perseverance necessary to reach such eminence ? " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" THE FIRST VISIT OF CHARLES I. TO DEVON, 1625. BY 1-H'L Q. Iv.UtKKKK. at Paigntou, August, 1878.)... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 2000 - 518 pages
...last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton, Lycidas. And again: How hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Beattie, The Minstrel. Finally, we can also see why the vainest of all nations constantly talks about... | |
 | Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 pages
...Beattie's The Minstrel, for instance, with its Spenserian stanzas and its warnings that no one 'can tell how hard it is to climb / The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar', illustrates the point. The 'plan of the poem'6 (and of Keats's reading as a whole) describes a pilgrimage... | |
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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... 
