| Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 דפים
...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 - 610 דפים
...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 - 296 דפים
...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 - 160 דפים
...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 - 418 דפים
...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 - 282 דפים
...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 - 278 דפים
...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 - 676 דפים
...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 - 324 דפים
...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 - 428 דפים
...•:,;•-,' • .". , •.. - 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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