 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 674 pàgines
..."Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps tho skirts of happier chance, Who breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known, ' Who lives to clutch the golden .keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees And shape the whisper of... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - 1915 - 274 pàgines
...confidence and the following of every loyal citizen, and in the searchlight of the present crisis is as one Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breaks the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known,... | |
 | William S. Key - 1882 - 98 pàgines
...has been consulted and quoted. WS KEY. February, 1882. DOST thou look back on what hath beenr 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 pàgines
...of thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. 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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 832 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 his merit known And lives... | |
 | A B. Mackay - 1882 - 162 pàgines
...is fitted, and he will in good time reach his own level. Have we not again and again heard 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 his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1882 - 290 pàgines
...affection and reverence. In the words of that English poet whom he loved so well, he was. indeed— As 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 happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance,... | |
 | Francis Marion Green - 1882 - 460 pàgines
...character is aptly des<ribed in the words of England's great laureate as he traces the step upward of some '"Divinely gifted man, 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 the blows... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pàgines
...and light 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, And on a simple village green t Who breaks his birth's invidious bar. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows... | |
 | 1883 - 112 pàgines
...their early lives. The lines of Tennyson express a well-considered truth, when he speaks 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 his merit known, And... | |
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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,... 
