...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 Fame's proud temple shines afar! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influenee of...

...an exceedingly fat Dutch woman perspiring up the hill, and the expression of her face seemed to say, "Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep!" However, a paradise proved the goal of my labors, and I realized once that the desirable is sometimes...

...Beattie, who was born at Lawrence Kirk, Kincardine, Scotland, 1735, and died at Aberdeen, 1803 : " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple chines afar; Ah ! who can tell bow many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of...

...resistless fall, And she who means no mischief does it all. AARON HILL. THE MINSTREL. SELECTED. H, 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...

...sale of the volumes was gravely impeded, no edition of them being required between 1807 and 1815. ' 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...

...following: What winning graces! what majestic mien I She moves a goddess and she looks a queen. POPE. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! — BKATTIE. cede seed rite right lie lye clime climb hoard horde...

...denieth God. 2. He who swears is a liar. Ital. Fame. 1. A good fame is better than a good face. 2. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattle. 3. All fame is dangerous, good bringeth envy, bad, shame....

...denieth God. 2. He who swears is a liar. Ital. Fame. 1. A good fame is better than a good face. 2. Ah t who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie. 3. All fame is dangerous, good bringeth envy, bad, shame....

...fully than he the truth of the lines, written by another Scottish poet, now almost forgotten — " 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 waged with Fortune an...

...with perill and with paine. " Compare also Milton's Lycidas, 72, and Beattie, Minstrel, i. 1 : — " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " 215. shall find ... sun. The man that ever strives to obey the...