...however, attain an elevation beyond this — of which Beattie's exclamation is indeed too true : " O ! wbo can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?* I mean a station where the intellectual ™ay predominate over the moral — where the rational shall...

...are merely made to warn him against expecting that his bed of roses will be unmixed with thorns. " 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," were the beautiful exclamations of Beattie, when depicting the...

...he had fallen; his services were but short: he sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines:— "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 a perpetual war!" Certain it is,...

...Heaven.'—Beaumont and Fletcher. Others know the strength and feel the beauty of another tale:— ' Ah! who can fell 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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable...

...the charge of maintaining three unmarried sisters for whom no other provision had been made. "All ! 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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable...

...with the talents and learning of those who have fought their slow way to public confidence and learned "How hard it is to climb the steep Where Fame's proud temple shines afar," than that the barriers in the way of incompetency and ignorance shall be broken down and the walks...

...blunt laugh : " You must be wise indeed if you have discovered a royal road to distinction ! — " ' Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !' A more sensible exclamation than poets usually preface with their whining 'Ah's' and 'Oh's!'" "...

...on the glittering steep (" Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb!"i) has not been similarly i " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar i " BEATTIC. attracted towards the roof at the craggy foot of the ascent, under which golden dreams...

...tell h6w hard it is t6 climb The steep where Fame's prflud temple shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell h6w many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the" scoff 6f Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's...

...is in the Spenserian measure. The keynote is struck in the opening stanzas: PRELUDE TO THE MINSTREL. 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 ; Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable...