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... Noctes Ambrosianæ - Strona 89autor: John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - Liczba stron: 738
...round his antlcra tall, And hung hie lofty neck with many a floweret small. [Opening of Ihe Minttrel.] mportunate and vain ; And while his passion touched my he Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Ная felt the influence... | |
| Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - Liczba stron: 176
...slack their, course, and many a league cheered with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles. — Milton. 3. 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... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 334
...covetous man—is as much deprived of what he has, as of what he has not ; for he enjoys neither. 3. Ah', who can tell, how hard it is to climb the steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar, checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, and Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 390
...covetous matt — is ns much deprived of what he Au.«. as of what he has not ; for he enjoys neither. 3. Ah ! who can tell, how hard it is to climb the steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar, checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, and Poverty's unconquerable... | |
| 1845 - Liczba stron: 558
...round the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. " 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... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Liczba stron: 838
...distress'd, who cry'd for aid, And fill'd with loud laments the secret shade. Dryden. Theod. und Honor. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep whore fame's proud temple shines afar! Ah, who can tell how many a son! suhlimc Has felt the influence... | |
| Disruption, William Cross - 1846 - Liczba stron: 462
...left the den of guilt and wretchedness, with a haste almost as dangerous as delay. CHAPTER XXVII. " 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... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1846 - Liczba stron: 334
...a blunt laugh — "You must be wise, indeed, if you have discovered a royal road to distinction! " 'Ah , who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! ' A more sensible exclamation than poet's usually preface with their... | |
| William Cross (of Paisley.) - 1846 - Liczba stron: 460
...left the den of guilt and wretchedness, with a haste almost as dangerous as delay. CHAPTER XXVII. " 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... | |
| John Mitchell - 1847 - Liczba stron: 248
...common 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... | |
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