| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 576 páginas
...Though gifted with the finest powers, we may remark of these, with Beattie's Minstrel, " Ah who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar:" for true it is that the loftiest and most finely strung spirits, destitute of fortune and other happy... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 416 páginas
...compard, perdie, to YOU. POEM V. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BT JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK!. I. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war; _ Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's.low vale... | |
| 1789 - 214 páginas
...perdie, to YOU. POEM V. THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. ET JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK I. I. AH I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 410 páginas
...perdie, to YOU. POEM V. THE MINSTREL; OK, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. I! T JAMES BEATTIE, LLD BOOK I. I. AH I who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| 1833 - 736 páginas
...us of the delightful strains of Beattie, the first stanza of which would have powerfully warned him “——how hard it is to climb The steep where F'ame's proud temple shines afar.” The present minstrel modestly sues for leniemmcy, and we will not be severe; but we must remind him... | |
| James Beattie - 1797 - 150 páginas
...BOOK. I. AH! who can tell how hard it is to climb I- The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar j Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 páginas
...edit. NUMBER XXXIX. Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstai Ret angusta domi. Juvenal. Sat. iii. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar f Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with... | |
| James Beattie - 1802 - 152 páginas
...MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I. THE MINSTREL ; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. THE FIRST BOOK. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| 1802 - 302 páginas
...dulces, ante otnnia, Musae, Quarum sacra fcro, ingenti perculsus amore, Accipiant. VIKG. BOOK I. A i. H \ who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where...malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale... | |
| James Beattie - 1803 - 190 páginas
...Musce, Quorum sacra fero, ingenti perculsus amore, A ccipiant. VIRGIL. THE MINSTREL. BOOK FIRST. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep,...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 remote has pined alone,... | |
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