 | Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - Страниц: 972
...all these I had now escaped, and imagined myself an eaglet, capable of soaring to the sun ; but, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" Day after day rolled on, and I did nothing ; every succeeding hourdiminishingmy hopes, and sowing... | |
 | 1819 - Страниц: 610
...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 the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war !" BEATTIE. MR EDITOR, A s I happen to be one of the few of your... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1820 - Страниц: 296
...round the era15 die of his young ambition, might have sought t* crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the intiuence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury as this admit... | |
 | James Watson - 1820 - Страниц: 160
...of the noblest efforts, are suffered to languish, in obscurity and want. " All ! who can tell, bow hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud...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... | |
 | Cornelius Tuthill - 1820 - Страниц: 418
...FRATERNITY OF GENTLEMEN. NEW-HAVEN, (CONN.) PUBLISHED BY AH MALTBY & CO. No. 31.] TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1820. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...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... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 282
...201 " O mortal man, who livest here by toil." THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Страниц: 278
...tiresome to the ear, will be found to hold true, only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. BOOK I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...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... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 676
...cruel ridicule, the same familiar truth which the poet more naturally bewails with tender sympathy: Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shir.es afar ! But one finds a similar difficulty in extricating himself from the crowd with which... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1822 - Страниц: 324
...the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war?" Can such an injury as this admit of justification ? I think the... | |
 | 1822 - Страниц: 428
...•:,;•-,' • .". , •.. - r ..:,» Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb -..; i. .'; ,,.-. -,, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?.... :• , Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant stair, -:i • '» -^ • .. • y And waged with fortune an eternal... | |
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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... 
