...descent. Of this charming poem we annex the opening of the first part : — OPENING OF THE MINSTREL. 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 soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant...

...place in successive lines, but in such as are placed at some distance from each other : as, N " Ah ! 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 waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff...

...ascend the hill of knowledge. Thanks, a thousand times, for that piece of midnight mischief ! " 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...

...essentially important duties of his station, and casts an eye towards an honorable fame- — " Oh ! who can tell how hard it is to climb, " The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar, " And wage with sorrows an eterual war." Who can estimate the ordinary value of such a profession,...

...6 Rule IV. Rem. I. * Ye is rarely used in the objective case. THE MINSTREL. — [BEATTIE.J I. All ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud i em pie shines afar; Ah .' who can tell how many a s>oul sublime, Has felt the influence of malignant...

...truth be said, that Mr. Forrest possesses within himself the 'elements of great-- ness;' and though - hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar,' yet, if he judiciously husbands his resources, and tempers with discretion the exercise of his powers,...

...not only reflecting honor upon them, but upon their country. " Ah how hard il is to climb, The steeps where fame's proud Temple shines afar, Ah, who can tell how many a heart sublime? Hath felt the inl maee of rn iliguant star, And with fortune, waged an eternal war."...

...truth be said, that Mr. Forrest possesses within himself the * elements of greatness;' and though - hard it is to climb, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar,' yet, if he judiciously husbands his resources, and tempers with discretion the exercise of his powers,...

...silent for a moment and, then buried her face in her hands. OHAPTBE XX* THE EEFOEMED EUMSELLEE, " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where wine's red temple shines afar ; Ah I who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of...

...would build a house in such a place, was worthy of a residence in Sing-Sing prison : ' 'Аи ! few can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar.' It was as a preliminary exercise and training of the limbs, no doubt, in the noble race of ambition,...