 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1898 - 546 sidor
...the transformed Museum, in the still libraries of which he had sometimes snatched a brief and 1 "All, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?" BEATTIE. ghostly respite from books of law. Onwards yet through lifeless Bloomsbury, not so far towards... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 sidor
...scorn of 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... | |
 | 1900 - 372 sidor
...the late Rev. James Porter, Toronto. Measures, not men, have always been my mark. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? JAMES BEATTIE. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 452 sidor
...To 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... | |
 | Robert Shields - 1900 - 370 sidor
...the late Rev. James Porter, Toronto. Measures, not men, have always been my mark. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? JAMBS BEATTIB. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - 1901 - 1236 sidor
...California. chair of state to the federal senate — for Fame had claimed him as her favorite. "O, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" Latham mounted the height, as if aided by unseen wings, and friend and foe alike applauded as rapidly... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Meigs - 1901 - 420 sidor
...on the subject, though it is to be hoped a fitting account may some time be published. Ah ! who caii tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. —BiOttie. No. 732. SERGT. JAMES MADISON MEIGS. At the commencement of the Civil War, James Madison... | |
 | 1901 - 756 sidor
...Waddell (S. 294) erkannt hat, mit einer Reminiscenz aus Beattie's Minstrel (I l, l f.): 'Ah! who cau teil how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar,' etc.;*) ') Ein matter Vorklang von unseres Storni prächtigem Liede "Bettlerliebe"! *) In dieser Hinsicht... | |
 | Otto Ritter - 1901 - 282 sidor
...Waddell (S. 294) erkannt hat, mit einer Reminiscenz aus Beattie's Minstrel (I l, l f.): 'Ah! who cau teil how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar,' etc.; 4 ) 1) Ein matter Vorklang von unseres Storm prächtigem Liede "Bettlerliebe"! -") In dieser... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sidor
...the prouder for it ; I like to be despised. The Hypocrite. Act c. Sc. X. JAMES BEATTIE. 1735-1803. Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ? The Minstrel. Book i. Stanza 1. Zealous, yet modest ; innocent, though free j Patient of toil, serene... | |
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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... 
