 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 pągines
...chess-board, but takes the one before it, and plays the best game " possible under existing combinations. " 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," is, in nine cases out of ten, the fortunate... | |
 | Julia McNair Wright - 1886 - 340 pągines
...of grog-shops over to the island, every time. Poor kids ! " CHAPTER XII. • THE WIDENING WORLD. " 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." DAY after day drifted slowly by, as our travellers... | |
 | Joseph Stratford - 1887 - 384 pągines
...he certainly serves as some illustration, though far from the highest and the best, of Tennyson's " 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," till, conquering all difficulties, he climbs... | |
 | 1887 - 882 pągines
...glebes, in the wellremembered lines of In Memoriam. " 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; and compares him with the old companion of... | |
 | Joseph Stratford - 1887 - 384 pągines
...he certainly serves as some illustration, though far from the highest and the best, of Tennyson's " 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," till, conquering all difficulties, he climbs... | |
 | 1921 - 894 pągines
...well-digger of Scandinavian descent, may some day occupy central place in American life. "... Some divinely gifted man Whose life in low estate began...Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps the shirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance And grapples with his evil star; **********... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 314 pągines
...and Breath, And what THOU art may never be destroyed. From "Last Lines." — Emily Bronte. 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... | |
 | Edwin Hamlin Carr - 1922 - 312 pągines
...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;...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,... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pągines
...growed. Don't think nobody never made me. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE — Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ch.XXI. 20 As some Satire IL 755. 26 With your own heart confer; And...find a flatterer. YOUNG — Love of Fame. Satire V TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Canto 64. 21 When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pągines
...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...village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, S And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his... | |
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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,... 
