 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 380 pages
...the subject and spirit of the poem." • - EDITOK. " Ah I who can tell how hard it is to clirtib The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah...Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bat ; In life's low vale remote has pih'd alone, Then dropt into the graye, unpitied and unknown ?... | |
 | James Beattie - Fore-edge painting - 1816 - 238 pages
...fero, ingenti perculsns amort, Acciptant. VirsBOOK I. 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 eterual war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Electronic books - 1817 - 234 pages
...have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " 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 Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ?" Can such an injury... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1817 - 166 pages
...to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The stee]> were Fame's proud temple 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?" BEATTIE. Can such... | |
 | England - 1876 - 818 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... | |
 | Filippo Pananti - Africa, North - 1818 - 524 pages
...the lightning fulminate mankind, and like that phenomenon, leave only traces of darkness behind them. Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! Some means of independence... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...1803. 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1819 - 410 pages
...proud temple shines afar; A h ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has fek the influence of mal,gnant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd...by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, I , life'i low vale remote (i39 pin'd alone, Thendropt into the grave, nnpiUedandunknown." The health... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...cannot look but with a tear of sorrow and reverence.," Ahi 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, Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war.' Seattle. " 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... 
