 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 88de Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1856 - 834 pagini
...of the highest mark and influence in council He * FABINI'S ilittory of Home, 88, ch. T. " Who mokes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne," if he be not directly and by name connected with some memorable event, or be immediately laid hold... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pagini
...friend remember me ?" 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...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; He past : a soul of nobler tone : My spirit loved and loves him yet, Like some poor girl whose heart... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pagini
...been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; 1 Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chin«, And breasts the blows cf circumsua«, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pagini
..." IN MEJIORIA1I." 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 ;...the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, Au4 shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's crowning... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 332 pagini
...Lemoyne. Though proud to be there as the wife of one who had 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, — .her sole anxiety was for her pretty Nina ; who, accompanying Mrs. Hildyard to the gallery, was... | |
 | James Payn - 1859 - 464 pagini
...enterprise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began to quote from the " In Memoriam," " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance, I hope, however, old boy ; let us... | |
 | 1861 - 594 pagini
...up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks liis birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstanceAnd grapples with his evil star" ! And yet, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 - 398 pagini
...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.... | |
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