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... Solitude - Seite 227von Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 403 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 Seiten
...seen afar, youth's trophies bright In Fancy's rainbow-ray invite His wingy nerves to climb. Beat tie. Ah ? who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war. Id. What is the end of fame ? 'Tib but to fill A certain portion... | |
| Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 Seiten
...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 - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| James Beattie - 1831 - 330 Seiten
...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...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| 1831 - 426 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Gordon Smith - 1832 - 386 Seiten
...travessa do Taio, and put an end to our fatigues, and more than realize our expectations. But— " — : who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...shines afar ? Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star?" The first two do/en persons, at least, to whom we put the... | |
| 1851 - 830 Seiten
...true that I shall make no apology for quoting them. " All! who can tell how many a soul sublime Ha* 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 bar; In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then drop'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 Seiten
...Johnson), to the grocer's counter, and the gipsy-murderer's bacon !!!" — B. Diary, 1821.] (3) [" Ah \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar," &c. — BEATTIE.] For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call... | |
| 1833 - 764 Seiten
...to make us play the woman, and remind us of what Beattie sings with so much beautiful pathos: — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star? And wag'd with... | |
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