 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pagine
...height, a deeper deep. 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...star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to cluteh the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And moving up from high to highet, Becomes... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1882 - 290 pagine
...some divinely gifted man Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green: Who breaUs his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. When the beloved Prince, the husband of our Gracious Queen, passed away from us, the same poet wrote... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pagine
...demands, May dunce, by dunce bo whistled otf шу hands! p. POPE — Prologue lo Satires. Line 251. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. q. TENNÏSOX— In Memoriam. Pt. LXHI. TAILORING. Thy clothes are nil the soul thou hast, r. BEAUMONT... | |
 | Francis Marion Green - 1882 - 460 pagine
...Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village Green, Wbo breaks his birth's invidious bars, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts...blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil stars: Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mould a mighty suite's... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1882 - 582 pagine
...life iu low estate began, And on a humble village green. " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, Am! grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil slur! " And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's crowning slope, The pillar of a people's... | |
 | 1882 - 310 pagine
..." Whose life In low estate begnn, And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's fnvtdloug bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance ; And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with Ills evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pagine
...be whistled orf uiy hands! p. POPE— Prologue, to Satires. Line 251. And lives to clutch the goldpn Nightingale. Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, q. TENXSSON-- Jn Memoriaiu. Pt. LXIII. TAILORING. Thy clothes are all the BOU! thon hast, r. BEAUMONT... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pagine
...show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance. s. Antony and Cleopatra. ActV. Sc. 2. p$ : F a 0^> VVw* xJ j t. TENNYSON — In Memoriam, Pt. LXIII. Naught venture, naught have. u. THOS. TUSSER— Five Hundred... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 396 pagine
...circumstances under which we are compelled to act, we must put forth the vivida vis animi of him " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." We must place ourselves en rapport with the circumstances ; strike with, not against, the forces of... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 pagine
...America! Tennyson well described him when he wrote the lines: — " 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... | |
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