 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 414 pàgines
...round A higher height, a deeper deep. LX11I. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some div-nely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pàgines
...DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, 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 ; . Who makes by force his merit known, And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1867 - 234 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 pàgines
...mine own ambition, and my queen. W. SHAKESPEARE 73 ТЛО8Т thou look back on what hath been, as some divinely gifted man, whose life in low estate began...grasps the skirts of happy chance, and breasts the blows of circumstance, and grapples with his evil star: who makes by force his merit known, and lives... | |
 | E. S. Maine - 1870 - 318 pàgines
...benefit. Poor, dear, kind Tom ! I do hope he will come back for his Christmas roast beef. CHAPTER XIII. " Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village...invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance." • — TENNYSON. LAST night Evan came up to Plas Mawr. He came immediately after dinner, when uncle... | |
 | Marian Frances Fernando - 1870 - 56 pàgines
...predicted, he lived revered, he died revered, and his memory was held sacred by the children of earth. " 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, ********* And moving up from high to higher,... | |
 | Thomas W. Blanshard - 1870 - 342 pàgines
...CHAPTER VIII. THE ECCLESIASTICAL " As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began ; ***** 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 ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIII. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | David Thomas - 1871 - 784 pàgines
...will, is constantly removing mountains, accomplishing that which is pronounced impossible. " \VTio 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, " lie can do wonders — almost all things... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIV. OST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives... | |
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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; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... 
