 | James Beattie - 1816 - 242 pages
...ingenti perculsns amort, Acciptant. VirsBOOK I. I. 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 eterual war ; Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...the subject and spirit of the poem." EDITOR. « 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 wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1817 - 234 pages
...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 ! who can...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., 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...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war?" BEATTIE. Can such an injury as this admit of justification ? I think the learned Counsel will concede... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 pages
..." 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...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... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...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 ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war, Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...look but with a tear of sorrow and reverence.," Ahi who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah! who can...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war.' Seattle. " This letter carries along with it another refutation of the odious sentiment of Horace Walpole,... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...the tobacco and goods landed omitted, AB ItOGKAPHlCAL SKETCH OF МЛСDONALU, AUTHOR OF VIMONDA. " Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war !" BEATTIE. MR EDITOR, A s I happen to be one of the few of your oldest readers, who am also one of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. 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... | |
 | James Watson - 1820 - 160 pages
...suffered to languish, in obscurity and want. " All ! who can tell, bow hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud Temple shines, afar? Ah ! who can...soul sublime, Hath felt the influence of malignant sla.r, — And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war: Cbeck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy'i frown, And... | |
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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... 
