 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 Seiten
...MEMOIR or THE LATE COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER, OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE. My beautiful, my brave ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman, who settled... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1835 - 632 Seiten
...he appears I by himself, the single one of his race, who had proved how hard, and yet how possible, it is to climb " The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." Bernardo was the descendant of an honourable line of ancestors, — one of whom, nearly two centuries... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...pritnum duices ante omnia MuSE, Quorum sacra fero, iogeti percutus amore, Accipiant.— Virg. BOOK I. I. 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 Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune... | |
 | 1836 - 808 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 Seiten
...Through the dark cloud of ills that cover him, Break out.and burn with more triumphant blaze ! ADDISON. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star And waged with fortune... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1899 - 204 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 504 Seiten
...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!'" "... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 624 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 Seiten
...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 unconquerable bar; In life's l6w vale... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 590 Seiten
...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...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
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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... 
