| James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...benefit in abating the dread of a threatening barrier, which too often disheartens those, who feel , " how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple beams afar." Lord Bridport was the son of the late worthy vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, near Axminster,... | |
| James Beattie - Wood-engraving - 1802 - 152 pages
...MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. THE FIRST BOOK. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar j Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 pages
...; three of them attained their wishes ; and two of them, Browne and Stewart, acquired celebrity. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple stands afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star !... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...three of them attained their wishes ; and two of them, Browne and Stewart, acquired celebrity. « All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple stands afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star I... | |
| William Hayley - 1806 - 484 pages
...the heart sick :" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...heart sick :" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
| 1806 - 184 pages
...the Day of Judgment.— Dr. Glynn ... 130 THE WREATH. THE MINSTKEL: THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines alar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd... | |
| William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...heart sick:" Or who find more frequent occasion to rer peat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar? . • . >• * • • i ' « . • • 'Judgment and resolution are both requisite t6 employ advantageously... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1812 - 464 pages
...the heart sick:" Or who find more frequent occasion to repeat the expressive exclamation of Beattie, Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? Judgment and resolution are both requisite to employ advantageously the vacant time, that a young... | |
| Jane Harvey - 1812 - 894 pages
...J4JVE AUTHOR OF 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... | |
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