...and unknown ! Islington, April I4,I831. S. SKINNER. The steep whei e Fame's proud temple shines afarT Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt...malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war! Checked by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown, FOR ARLISS'S POCKET MAGAZINE. GREEN PEAS. IN the beginning...

...cruel ridicule, the same familiar truth which the poet more naturally bewails with tender sympathy: Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shir.es afar ! But one finds a similar difficulty in extricating himself from the crowd with which...

...the cradle of his young ambition, might have sought to crush him in its envenomed foldings. 1 "wts> can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's...shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with fortune an eternal war?" Can such an injury...

...•:,;•-,' • .". , •.. - r ..:,» Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb -..; i. .'; ,,.-. -,, The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ?...a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant stair, -:i • '» -^ • .. • y And waged with fortune an eternal .war; . , Cheek'd by the scoff...

...which the friendless child of genius has to wade, before the world smiles on his solitary labours: " Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar!" The government, far from dispensing rewards to modest worth, may be described, in the...

...<rlimb The steep where Fame's proud tempi* shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul suhlime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd hy the scofl' of Pride, hy Envy'* Cm .vii, And Poverty's unconquerahle har, In Life's low...

...dulces ante omnia Mane, qunrun. i«cn» fero, ingenti percultus unore, Accipiant. VIB.O. JiOOK I. I. AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep whereFame's proud temple shines afar ; , Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence...

...Minstrel. It is one of those rare performances of which the shortness is the greatest disappointment. " Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep...shines afar! Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Hath felt the influence of malignant star, And wag'd with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff...

...sleep. Names of no small renown may be quoted, who, by their own experience in this respect, knew - how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar !" The author of these lines himself, the amiable Beattie, taught his way through the University, aided...

...picturesque scenery ¡в general. THE FEELINGS AND FORTUNES OF A SCOTCH TL'TOlt. No. V. Oh ! who can say how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud Temple shines afar ': THEY only, Mr Editor, whose fortunes have been of their own making, who have known what it is to...