| James Beattie - 1797 - 150 ページ
...'- .*- '..A THE MINSTREL: OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. THE FIRST BOOK. I. AH ! who can tell how hai'd it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar j Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
| James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 640 ページ
...benefit in abating the dread of a threatening barrier, which too often disheartens those, who feel , " how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple beams afar." Lord Bridport was the son of the late worthy vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, near Axminster,... | |
| Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 ページ
...edit. NUMBER XXXIX. Haud Facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat Ret angusta domi. Juvenal. Sat. iii. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...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 bar, In life's... | |
| 1802 - 302 ページ
...dulces, ante omnia, Musae, Quarum sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. VIRG. BOOK I. A I. H \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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 bar, In life's... | |
| James Beattie - 1802 - 152 ページ
...MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. THE FIRST BOOK. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar j Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
| James Beattie - 1803 - 190 ページ
...Musce, Quorum sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, A ccipiant. VIRGIL. THE MINSTREL. BOOK FIRST. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...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... | |
| 1804 - 646 ページ
...is faulty in other respects." The introductory lines to this poem have been greatly admired : i. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb ' The steep...sublime Has felt the 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... | |
| 1804 - 636 ページ
...other respects." The introductory lines to this poem have been greatly admired : i. " Ah ! who ran tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...sublime Has felt the 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... | |
| James Beattie - 1805 - 178 ページ
...f era, ingenti perculsut amorc, Accipiant. • THE MINSTREL; THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK FIRST. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...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... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - 190 ページ
...: OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. THE MINSTREL: OR, THE PROGRESS OF. GENIUS.. SOOg I. 1 ./1.H ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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 bar, In life's... | |
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