 | William Mathews - 1883 - 396 pàgines
...circumstances under which we are compelled to act, we must put forth the vivida vis animi of him " 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." We must place ourselves en rapport with the... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 pàgines
...applied to Mr Disraeli the fine lines which are to be found in the finest of our memorial poems :— " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumatanoe, And grapples with hi s evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 374 pàgines
...applied to Mr Disraeli the fine lines which are to be found in the finest of our memorial poems : — " 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... | |
 | Longmeadow centennial comm - 1884 - 468 pàgines
...broad and sunny green and these overhanging elms, for the early home of such a man as Tennyson sings. " Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green. Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mould a mighty State's decrees,... | |
 | Longmeadow (Mass.) - 1884 - 470 pàgines
...broad and sunny green and these overhanging elms, for the early home of such a man as Tennyson sings. " Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green. Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys To mould a mighty State's decrees,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 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 makes by force his merit known And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pàgines
...How vain am I ! How should he love a thing so low ?' 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 pàgines
...How vain am I ! How should he love a thing so low?' 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... | |
 | Andrew J. Jutkins - 1885 - 218 pàgines
...chords: "As some divinelv-gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And ou a simple village greeu ; 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 worth his merits known, And grasps'the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 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 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,... 
