 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...friendless child of genius has to wade, before the world smiles on his solitary labours: " Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar!" The government, far from dispensing rewards to modest worth, may be described, in the... | |
 | 1823 - 816 pages
...picturesque scenery ¡в general. THE FEELINGS AND FORTUNES OF A SCOTCH TL'TOlt. No. V. Oh ! who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud Temple shines afar ': THEY only, Mr Editor, whose fortunes have been of their own making, who have known what it is to behold... | |
 | John Morison Duncan - 1823 - 372 pages
...sleep. Names of no small renown may be quoted, who, by their own experience in this respect, knew - how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" The author of these lines himself, the amiable Beattie, taught his way through the University, aided... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...those rare performances of which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " 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 wag'd with... | |
 | 1834 - 424 pages
...and industry. It need hardly be said this is SHERIDAN KNOWLES. To those who contemplate — How bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; How many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star ; Checked by the scoff of pride,... | |
 | Catherine George Mason - 1824 - 642 pages
...at the gates of Slanmore Priory. r OR ONE, TWO, THHBK. 577 . ' CHAPTER XXVI. ' " 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... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...and pathos the difficulties and sorrows to which distressed genius is subject: — 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... | |
 | 1824 - 406 pages
...who are not moved with the train of thought which it must necessarily inspire. " ' 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 Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...to hold true only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. 140 THE MINSTREL. AH I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a aoul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
 | 1825 - 668 pages
...kindle it to a flame — his speculations were tinged with no gloomy doubt, checked by no suspicion " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." I lost sight of my young poet, who vanished into a more sequestered path, and I turned to look at the... | |
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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... 
