 | English literature - 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
...the carriage stopped 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...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war! Check'd by the scoff of pride, by Euvy's frown. And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...with much energy and pathos the difficulties and sorrows to which distressed genius is subject: — Ah ! who can tell how hard it Is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war : CJieck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...mortals must they be, 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...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 ; Check'd by the scofl'of... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...The steps where Fame's proud temple shines afar .' Aii, 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 Feist - 1825 - 132 pages
...103 A spick and span new Sang 104 Occasional Addresses 108 IX THE INVITATION. Ah ! who can tell bow many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war '. BEATTIE. .. . .,1. .. . BLITHE and free Come hither,— come Either ; LOVE leads the way, : But... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...BROWN, ESQ. 1,1 . D. OF THE INNERTF.MPLE.BARRISTFR-AT-LAW. (With a Portrait.) "Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SEATTIE. TRITE as this quotation is, it always comes recommended to the fancy by its truth, which... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 490 pages
...into decrepitude, and never become serviceable to mankind. Well may we exclaim, with Beattie, — i " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged, with fortune, an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale,... | |
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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... 
