...thirty years ago, in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ;...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merits known, And lives...

...of the poet— " 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 ;...invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And brunts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes, by force his merit...

...contrast between youth and manhood, that he fairly won a place beside the self-made public benefactor, Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. His intellectual force was no less remarkable...

...deeper deep. LXIV. 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 breaks his birth's invidious bar, Andgrasps the skirts of happy chance, Andbreaststheblowsof circumstance, And grapples with his evil...

...intellect, which, if opportunity had only opened her shining door, would have made him one of those Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whispers of a throne. And moving up from high to higher, Becomes in Fortune's crowing slope The pillar...

...the master works and chief men of each race : Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher,...

...thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some "'Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green: Who...And grapples with his evil star: Who makes by force bis merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the...

...been applied in turn to himself! • For surely he was " As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began. And on a simple village green ;...grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes by force Us merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the...

...Those who ponder over Lord Mulgrave's whole career, may say with Tennyson in his In Memoriam— "He makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." It has been said of Pitt that he possessed few friends, but in his case, as in that of many highly...

...thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ;...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; ' Who makes by force his merit known, And lives...