 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 pàgines
...the lines of the poet which he himself quoted so effectively in reference to the death of Lincoln : " Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...simple village green, Who breaks his birth's invidious bars, And grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIV. 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 mnkcs by force his merit known And lives... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pàgines
...east, and IWit The light that shone when Hope was born." DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...green? Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps tho skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 pàgines
...was a great pity that a girl should be superior to her station in life. A man was different. He often '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.' But for a woman, there was, in most cases,... | |
 | 1879 - 524 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXiV. DOsT thou look hack on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious har. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breaste the blows of circumstance, And grapples with... | |
 | Brimfield (Mass. : Town) - 1879 - 590 pàgines
...divinely gifted man Whose life in low estate began, And in a simple village grown ? 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... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pàgines
...England's great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper ol the throne ; ' And moving up from high to higher,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1880 - 402 pàgines
...great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some — " ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...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,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 518 pàgines
...of England's great laureate written thirty years ago, in which he traces the upward steps of some 1 Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merits known, * And lives to clutch his golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 pàgines
...of England's great laureate written thirty years ago, in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merits known, And lives to clutch his golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the... | |
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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,... 
