 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...metaphysicians. " THE MINSTREL: OR THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS.1 BOOK I. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah !...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war! Check'd by tho scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Scotland - 1876 - 906 pages
...— alas ! only too little — to do. It is the old strain so often uttered by the poetic trill, of how many a soul sublime has felt the influence of malignant star, and the wasting of intellectual perfume in the desert air. Existence is for the time enlivened to him by... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...screen. Rosselti. 2769. POVERTY : a barrier to progress. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The ages all along, Thy praise may be our endless song....light Divine Shine upon this heart of mine; Chase th waged with fortune an eternal war ? Check 'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...MINSTREL. Specimens. [THE POET's SPHERE AND DIGNITY.] Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah !...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1878 - 792 pages
...vine. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK i. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! Ah !...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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...blaze ! ADDISON. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star And waged with fortune an eternal war ? BEATTIE: Minstrel. Studious of good, man disregarded fame, And... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; • Ah I 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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - English language - 1878 - 124 pages
...us we can make our lives sublime. One of the holiest relations, he said, was that of mother and son. Who can tell how many a soul sublime has felt the influence of malignant star I " What," said the nobleman to the sage, "have you got by your philosophy I" "Society in myself,"... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Friendship - 1879 - 814 pages
...to all lovers of poetry, — such, for example, as, — Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar : Ah,...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And with inglorious fortune waged eternal war! — enjoyed a delightful friendship with the Duchess of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - Mormons - 1879 - 228 pages
...round-abouts with two rows of brass buttons down before ? "Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? Ah, who...sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star And waged with fortune an eternal war?" But then that was not precisely the way we said it, but in this... | |
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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... 
