 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,...  The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson ... - Page 128by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...of the highest mark and influence in council He * FABINI'S ilittory of Home, 88, ch. T. " Who mokes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne," if he be not directly and by name connected with some memorable event, or be immediately laid hold... | |
 | United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland) - 1839 - 596 pages
...proudly remembered that to every American citizen the way is open to fame and station, until he — , Moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's...crowning slope The pillar of a People's hope, The center of a World's desire. Nor can we forget that it also teaches our people a sad and distressing... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, SB Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, LXII. Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance And grapples...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; He past : a soul of nobler tone : My spirit loved and loves him yet, Like some poor girl whose heart... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chin«, And breasts the blows cf circumsua«, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to dutch the golden kev«. To mould a mighty state's decrees. And shape the whisper of the throne ; And... | |
 | 1852 - 572 pages
...that it was seen going up without trembling, settled the happy issue, and the poet sung right, — " And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, What a day was that when we first entered the mysterious retreat — that seven-by-nine little closet... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples...the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, Au4 shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's crowning... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 332 pages
...Lemoyne. Though proud to be there as the wife of one who had Made by force his merit known, And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne, — .her sole anxiety was for her pretty Nina ; who, accompanying Mrs. Hildyard to the gallery, was... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...chance, j] . And breasts thc blows of circinnstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by foree his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's deerees, And shupe the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Heeomes on Fortune's... | |
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