 | Naval art and science - 1851 - 738 pages
...them. " All ! who can tell how many a soul sublime HaŤ felt the influence of malignant star, And wap'd with fortune an eternal war? Check'd by the scoff...frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar; In life's low vale remote has pin'd alone, Then drop'd into the grave, unpitied and unknown!" How far the conclusion... | |
 | John Gordon Smith - Portugal - 1832 - 382 pages
...fatigues, and more than realize our expectations. But— " — : 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?" The first two do/en persons, at least, to whom we put the... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 768 pages
...pathos: — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...fortune an eternal war, Check'd by the scoff of Pride, and Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar ? • • • • other. Oft had they trod the moon-lit... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...! " 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 star, And waged with fortune an eternal war ? Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...the head directing the feet !"] THE FATE OF GENIUS. Ah ! who can tell, bow bard 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 ! BEATTIE. A corner of the CANTERBURY MAGAZINE will not be ill-appropriated,... | |
 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 272 pages
...MEMOIR or THE LATE COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER, OF THE CHILIAN SERVICE. My beautiful, my brave ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an unequal war ! THE common ancestor of the Tuppers of Guernsey was an English gentleman,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins - English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...I. 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 Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
 | President of a college - Composition (Language arts) - 1836 - 156 pages
...soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'a by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote hath pined alone, , Then dropt into the grave unpiiied and unknown 1" Q,. What is the shortest... | |
 | William Hempson Denham - 1837 - 114 pages
...that his bed of roses will be unmixed with thorns. " 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," were the beautiful exclamations of Beattie, when depicting the... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 834 pages
...sadly realized the truth of those pathetic lines:— "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 a perpetual war!" Certain it is,... | |
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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... 
