 | Phrenology - 1829 - 686 pages
...; for it is easily conceivable that mild and gentle and unassuming individuals are easily " Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, And poverty's unconquerable bar ;" and this they have often to encounter from those who hold superior stations in society, which are... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1830 - 334 pages
...amends for being a woman—I should not pass away and perish." « " But have you forgotten—• " Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? " " No, sir, I have not forgotten." " Setting aside the ten thousand chances against a woman's achieving... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...own early feelings and poetical aspirations— is very finely drawn. Opening of the Minstrel. Ah ! obert Chambers shinee afar; Ah I who can tell how inuny a soul sublime lias felt the influence of malignant star,... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1899 - 204 pages
...with the talents and learning of those who have fought their slow way to public confidence and learned "How hard it is to climb the steep Where Fame's proud temple shines afar," than that the barriers in the way of incompetency and ignorance shall be broken down and the walks... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - English language - 1897 - 368 pages
...tell h6w hard it is t6 climb The steep where Fame's prflud temple shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell h6w many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the" scoff 6f Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar; In life's l6w vale... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 600 pages
...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 1 ' A more sensible exclamation than poets usually preface with their whining ' ah's ' and ' oh's '... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 504 pages
...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 poets usually preface with their whining 'Ah's' and 'Oh's!'" "... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...the Spenserian measure. The keynote is struck in the opening stanzas: PRELUDE TO THE MINSTREL. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - English language - 1899 - 228 pages
...Time. — FELICIA D. HEMANS. 2. From clime to clime he sped his course. — WILLIAM COWPER. 3. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! — JAMES BEATTIE. 4. The person whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 452 pages
...glory some advance a lying claim, Thieves of renown and pilferers of fame. YOUHG, Sat. m. 87, 88. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? BKATTIE, Minstrel, 1. 1. I would wish for immortality on earth for no other reason than for the power... | |
| |
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; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's... 
