| James Beattie - 1802 - 152 páginas
...BOOK. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar j 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 frown, And Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| James Beattie - 1803 - 190 páginas
...amore, A ccipiant. VIRGIL. THE MINSTREL. BOOK FIRST. 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 unconquerable... | |
| 1804 - 636 páginas
...introductory lines to this poem have been greatly admired : i. " Ah ! who ran 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 pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown !" After mentioning the... | |
| Pierre Franc M'Callum - 1805 - 376 páginas
...career of the latter is thus pathetically described : 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 ; Check.' d by the scoff of pride — by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar ? In life's... | |
| James Beattie - 1805 - 178 páginas
...THE MINSTREL; THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK FIRST. 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 unconquerable... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1805 - 190 páginas
...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...frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown J And yet the languor... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 páginas
...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 Aid waged with Fortune an eternal war ! Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown. And poverty's... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 páginas
...many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star ! Aad waged with Fortune an eternal war I Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote have pined alone," Sec. Seattle's Minstrel. Vol. II. No. 11. Zzz in some European university.... | |
| 1806 - 184 páginas
...composition, is there displayed in its fullest extent. 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 etern&l war ; Check'd by the scoff... | |
| 1807 - 442 páginas
...us then not sigh, but let us rejoice, when we say 1 " 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... | |
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