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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... "
In Memoriam - Page 88
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 80

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...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 6

Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...friend remember me ?" 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 ; Who...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...
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The Edinburgh Christian magazine, Volumes 1-2

1850 - 682 pages
...been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; 1 Who breaks his 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...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
..." IN MEJIORIA1I." 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 ;...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...
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A life's lessons, Volume 3; Volume 479

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...
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The Foster Brothers: Being a History of the School and College Life of Two ...

James Payn - 1859 - 464 pages
...enterprise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began to quote from the " In Memoriam," " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance, I hope, however, old boy ; let us...
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Temple Bar, Volume 1

1861 - 594 pages
...up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks liis birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstanceAnd grapples with his evil star" ! And yet, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the...
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Temple Bar, Volume 1

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pages
...conjure up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the hill, the stream, and the friend that was liis...
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

1861 - 712 pages
...excellent specimen of the rigid, upright, shrewd Scotsman, who " Breaks his birth's invidious bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." At the Medico- Chirurgical Society on Wednesday night Dr. Stewart, a new member, read an able paper...
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Thalatta! Or The Great Commoner. A Political Romance

Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 398 pages
...Light, the rosyfinger'd Morn,' stirs over yonder, — an I mistake not." CHAPTER V. THE COMMONWEALTH. Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. rPHE COMMONWEALTH was in commotion. -*- The COMMONWEALTH was the popular club with the younger men....
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