 | Jane Harvey - 1812 - 894 pages
...ETHELIA, TYM MOUTH CASTLE, . . V, r.NOIl OF BELLEvILLE, WARKFIELD CASTLK, &C. &0. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb ' The steep where Fame's proud temple shines arar : ' Ah I who can tell how many a son! iiiblime Has felt the influence of malignant slur, * And... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...owu. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BY JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK I. I. All ! 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... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1815 - 284 pages
...Heaven that the Divinity is perceived, and not by a few irregularities of nature. " 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 618 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... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 472 pages
...aspiring, and confident mind of Sheridan, who boldly entered the lists as a competitor. He did not feel " How hard it is to climb " The steep, where Fame's proud Temple shines afar." Recommended solely by the vigour and versatility of his genius, he was not to be daunted by the hazard... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1816 - 372 pages
...original, to bear some'relation to the subject and spirit of the poem." EDITOR. « 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 wag'd with... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 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 I who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...that species of conscious approbation which is their best reward. No man has more fully experienced " How hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar." No man has more resolutely encountered the hiss and the sting of the envenomed reptiles, whose breath... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 234 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... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - 1818 - 524 pages
...man's humbled condition*? To the necessity of providing for his daily subsistence ! Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; # Pope's inimitable pen was never better employed than in immortalizing the Man of Ross, and rendering... | |
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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... 
