Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star... In Memoriam - Pagina 88di Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pagine
...conjure up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the hill, the stream, and the friend that was liis... | |
| 1861 - 712 pagine
...excellent specimen of the rigid, upright, shrewd Scotsman, who " Breaks his birth's invidious bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." At the Medico- Chirurgical Society on Wednesday night Dr. Stewart, a new member, read an able paper... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pagine
...vigour of hostility and sharpness of opposition." Mr. Tennyson has drawn a vivid picture of the man, — Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; — and the position occupied by the leader of the opposition — the merited reward of an intrepid intellect... | |
| Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 398 pagine
...Light, the rosyfinger'd Morn,' stirs over yonder, — an I mistake not." CHAPTER V. THE COMMONWEALTH. Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. rPHE COMMONWEALTH was in commotion. -*- The COMMONWEALTH was the popular club with the younger men.... | |
| 1863 - 596 pagine
...who remains iu the lower walks of life, in manly independence and daily toil, tlmu his brother who *' Lives to clutch the golden keys. To mould a mighty State's* decrees, Or shape tho whisper of a throne !" What restless nights is not his simple brother spared ! How many... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1867 - 234 pagine
...birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, Aud grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the goldeu keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pagine
...deeper deep. LXII I. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, !Vod grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagine
...ibid. lv. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Ibid. Ixiii. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Ibid. Ixiii. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. Thy leaf... | |
| State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1868 - 468 pagine
...of circumstance, And made by force, his merit known ; And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And, moving up froai high to higher, Becomes, on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre... | |
| St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1881 - 352 pagine
...M Your body u the temple of the Holy Ghost. ICor.vi. 11 He made by force his merit known, And lived to clutch the golden keys — To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." TKITNTBOIT. FOR late earl of ЭЗшопзйШг, BY THE EDITOR. jHE late Earl of Beaconsfield was distinguished... | |
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