 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...to bear on the present state of society. . EXTRACTS IN RHYME. How Appalling the Obstacles to Merit! AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...vero primum clulces ante omnia Musae, Quavuin sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Virg. AH ! Who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Oheck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JIACDOKALU, AUTHOR OF VIMONDA. • • Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war !" BEATTIE. MB EDITOR, As I happen to be one of the few «f your oldest readers, who am also one of... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...OR, THE MISERIES OF PARNASSUS. LETTER LXXVI. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The lteep, 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 ; Checked by the scoff... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 366 pages
...* er •-. fc.f> !«>•/ f,T * * JS' C.' ^ ..... tt ' *.* THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN PHILIP BEAVER, RN " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! " THE family of Beaver came into England from the Isle of Guernsey, and settled at an... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...amends for being a woman—I should not pass away and perish." « " But have you forgotten—• " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " " No, sir, I have not forgotten." " Setting aside the ten thousand chances against a woman's achieving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...embodied his own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 340 pages
...perculsus amore, Accipiant.— — VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 pages
...ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. VIRG. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. I. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...prlmuta dulcet ante omnla Jftaa, Quanint tacrafcro, ingenti percultv* amor с , Aniyiant— Virgil. AH! who can tell how hard It Is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines •for; Ah ! who can tell how runny a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged... | |
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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... 
