 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 698 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,...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star: Who makes by force bis merit known, And lives... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1881 - 386 pàgines
...described in the words of England's great laureate, in which he traces the upward steps of some " ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...village green. " ' Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, " ' Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, — To mould a mighty... | |
 | 1881 - 686 pàgines
...the Presidency, have a new and melancholy interest and significance now. He was, indeed, — Aa some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bur, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with... | |
 | Horatio Alger - 1881 - 360 pàgines
...from memory to quote in his brief speech, as applicable $o Lincoln, the poet's description of Borne "Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...simple village green, Who breaks his birth's invidious bars, And grasped the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with... | |
 | 1881 - 524 pàgines
...thon look back m, what hath been As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began -Vnd ou a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstauce, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives... | |
 | Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow Allderdice - 1881 - 68 pàgines
...TO HIGHER" ' ' BY MRS. EW ALLDERDICE. OVER THE HILL TO THE WHITE HOUSE, AND OUR PRESIDENT. "As some divinely gifted man. Whose life in low estate began...on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's insidious bar. And grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples... | |
 | JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 pàgines
...However, we give them as strangely apposite. " Doat t.li on look back on ,what hath been, As sorao divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks hia birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance,... | |
 | 1881 - 476 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Horatio Alger - 1881 - 356 pàgines
...from memory to quote in his brief speech, as applicable to Lincoln, the poet's description of Borne "Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green, Who makes l>y force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mould a mighty state's decrees,... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 pàgines
...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 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,... 
