 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 224 pages
...means of fortune or subsistence in this country. Many a young man of talents and education, " 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 dropt into the grave unpitied and unknown!" A great number of the... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " 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 wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff... | |
 | Catherine George Mason - 1824 - 642 pages
...Priory. r OR ONE, TWO, THHBK. 577 . ' CHAPTER XXVI. ' " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ! / ....sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war! Check'd by the scoff of pride, by Euvy's frown. And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...and sorrows to which distressed genius is subject: — 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 : CJieck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...train of thought which it must necessarily inspire. " ' 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 ; Check'd by the scofl'of... | |
 | William Collins - 1824 - 478 pages
...afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a aoul 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 iVown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1825 - 132 pages
...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... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...EXTRACTS IN RHYME. How Appalling the Obstacles to Merit! AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ! Ah !...frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown. And yet, the languor... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. Virg. AH ! Who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar, Ah !...malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war ; Oheck'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826
...to mankind. Well may we exclaim, with Beattie, — 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 ; Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's... | |
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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... 
