 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 380 pages
...to the subject and spirit of the poem." • - EDITOK. " Ah I who can tell how hard it is to clirtib The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ;...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the Scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 618 pages
...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 fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury as this admit of justification ? I think the learned Counsel will concede it... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1817 - 234 pages
...round the cradle 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...shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 pages
...round the cradle 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 fortune... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1817 - 166 pages
...to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The stee]> were 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 fortune an eternal war?" BEATTIE. Can such... | |
 | England - 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... | |
 | England - 1876 - 818 pages
...— alas ! only too little — to do. It is the old strain so often uttered by the poetic trill, of how many a soul sublime has felt the influence of malignant star, and the wasting of intellectual perfume in the desert air. Existence is for the time enlivened to him by... | |
 | Angus Umphraville - American poetry - 1817 - 172 pages
...glorious field ! Far from the strifes and toils of this, Inhabit now the realms of bliss. CANTO V. " Ah ! who can tell, how hard it is to climb The steep _where Fame's proud temple shines afar." JSeattiet' Minstrel." I. What names are on the rolls of fame,... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...and merit are consigned to indigence and obscurity. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb TUe steep where Fame's proud temple shines' afar! Ah !...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war, Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable... | |
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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; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's... 
