 | James M. Morrison - 1847 - Počet stránok 126
...We hope the day's no far away, When such are in our paw's that. FOURTH EPISTLE TO J. MORRISON. "An ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...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... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1847 - Počet stránok 248
...minds ; but, for him, it is " the divinity that stirs within him," that is to make him famous. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ! Let the youth who indolently reposes on his native gifts know that these lines are not the conviction... | |
 | 1847 - Počet stránok 214
...the righteous, and let my last end be like his?" OBDINARY TALENTS BETTER THAN UNCOMMON GIFTS. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ! BEATTIE. IT is at once allowed, that there are difficulties in the way of intellectual acquirement;... | |
 | Stephen Jenner - 1847 - Počet stránok 384
...Principles 30S XXIV. The Conclusion (Present Duties) - - 322 STEEPLETON. CHAPTER I. EARLY TRAINING. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's prond temple shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a sonl sublime I ins felt the inflnence of malignant... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - Počet stránok 390
...Johnson), to the grocer's counter, and the gipsy-murderer's bacon 1 1 !" — Byron Diary, 1821.] 3 [" Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar.*1 BEATTIBO * [** It is impossible not to regret that Lord Byron, being the contemporary of Lawrence... | |
 | William Beattie - 1849 - Počet stránok 520
...circumstances, must not be lost sight of. To others who, like Campbell, have felt, or have yet to feel — -How hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar," — his example will be a source of comfort and encouragement. To all who, by the same rugged path,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - Počet stránok 524
...oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? 117. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah 1 who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune... | |
 | Joseph Leech - 1850 - Počet stránok 284
...contingencies of weather. 193 Stettkif. BBATTIE begins his Minstrel, I think, by singing — " Oh ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ;" and Lord Bacon observes, in one of his Essays, "the rising into place is laborious;" while the experience... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - Počet stránok 768
...youth, and were then taught to refer to a prctty high antiquity. OPENING STANZAS OF "THE MINSTREL." Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb' The steep where...who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influenee of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of Pride,... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - Počet stránok 504
...hill of knowledge. Thanks, a thousand times, for that piece of midnight mischief! CHAPTEB IT. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" This is the utterance extorted by the pangs of intellectual labour. How exquisitely must it have... | |
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