 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 ページ
...; three of them attained their wishes ; and two of them, Browne and Stewart, acquired celebrity. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple stands afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star !... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 ページ
...three of them attained their wishes ; and two of them, Browne and Stewart, acquired celebrity. « All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple stands afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star I... | |
 | Angus Umphraville - 1817 - 172 ページ
...glorious field ! Far from the strifes and toils of this, Inhabit now the realms of bliss. CANTO V. " Ah ! who can tell, how hard it is to climb The steep _where Fame's proud temple shines afar." JSeattiet' Minstrel." I. What names are on the rolls of fame,... | |
 | 1821 - 676 ページ
...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... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 ページ
...which the friendless child of genius has to wade, before the world smiles on his solitary labours: " Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar!" The government, far from dispensing rewards to modest worth, may be described, in the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 560 ページ
...dulces ante omnia Mane, qunrun. i«cn» fero, ingenti percultus unore, Accipiant. VIB.O. JiOOK I. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep whereFame's proud temple shines afar ; , Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 ページ
...embodied his own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 ページ
...little increased ! wurkey cloud of intolerance and barbarism has obscured its Jiorizon, by the Union ! " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temples, shines afar t Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime, Has felt the influence of a malignant... | |
 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 ページ
...Valley 203 Queen Victoria 206 Dreams 208 The Locks of Hair 211 Praise 214 To the Reader 218 POEMS. "Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And... | |
 | John Sage - 1844 - 490 ページ
...exquisite propriety, deterred by the difficulty and remoteness of the prospect, have exclaimed — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's prond temple shines afar !" Yet, discouraging as was the situation in which he was placed, it led,... | |
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Fame's proud temple shinci afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war... 
