Ah ! who can tell how many a soul 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 bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then... The Book of Scottish Poems: Ancient and Modern - עמוד 541נערך על ידי - 1878 - 760 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1834 - 424 דפים
...and industry. It need hardly be said this is SHERIDAN KNOWLES. To those who contemplate — How bard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; How many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star ; Checked by the scoff of pride,... | |
| Catherine George Mason - 1824 - 642 דפים
...the carriage stopped at the gates of Slanmore Priory. r OR ONE, TWO, THHBK. 577 . ' CHAPTER XXVI. ' " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...an eternal war! Check'd by the scoff of pride, by Euvy's frown. And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale has pined alone,' • Then dropt... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 דפים
...with much energy and pathos the difficulties and sorrows to which distressed genius is subject: — Ah ! who can tell how hard it Is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war : CJieck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| 1824 - 406 דפים
...mortals must they be, who are not moved with the train of thought which it must necessarily inspire. " ' 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 an eternal war ; Check'd by the scofl'of... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 דפים
...will bs found to hold true only when the poetry is faulty in other respects. 140 THE MINSTREL. AH I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a aoul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune... | |
| Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 דפים
...The steps where Fame's proud temple shines afar .' Aii, who can tell how many a soul 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 learned counsel will concede it... | |
| Charles Feist - 1825 - 132 דפים
...103 A spick and span new Sang 104 Occasional Addresses 108 IX THE INVITATION. Ah ! who can tell bow many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war '. BEATTIE. .. . .,1. .. . BLITHE and free Come hither,— come Either ; LOVE leads the way, : But... | |
| 1825 - 668 דפים
...kindle it to a flame — his speculations were tinged with no gloomy doubt, checked by no suspicion " how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar." I lost sight of my young poet, who vanished into a more sequestered path, and I turned to look at the... | |
| 1825 - 610 דפים
...BROWN, ESQ. 1,1 . D. OF THE INNERTF.MPLE.BARRISTFR-AT-LAW. (With a Portrait.) "Ah, who can tell bow hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?" SEATTIE. TRITE as this quotation is, it always comes recommended to the fancy by its truth, which... | |
| 1826 - 490 דפים
...into decrepitude, and never become serviceable to mankind. Well may we exclaim, with Beattie, — i " 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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