 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1891 - 408 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 pages
...known And lives to clutch the golden keys To mold a mighty state's decrees And shape the whisper of a throne. And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...a people's hope, The center of a world's desire." contest would be decided on mathematical principles. He believed that the Border states held the balance... | |
 | 1892 - 718 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 pages
...known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire; Vet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | James Strahan - 1910 - 184 pages
...keys, And mould a mighty state's decrees. And shape the whisper of a throne ; And moving up from higher to higher. Becomes on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire. '3 MINISTRY. — Joseph is called to office as Pharaoh's Prime Minister.... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...And lives to clutch the golden keys, 1150 To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | Michigan. Dept. of Public Instruction - 1911 - 218 pages
...patient, laborious, brave, wise, great, and good, such was Abraham Lincoln. — -Theodore Frelinghuysen. Such a life and character will be treasured forever...possession of the American people and of mankind. — James A. (Jarfield. O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The... | |
 | Harry Levi - 1911 - 184 pages
...known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher Becomes on fortune's crowning slope. The pillar of the people's hope, The centre of a world's desire". 6. Defending Judaism and the Jew, Disraeli always... | |
 | 1911 - 448 pages
...had, all his days, troops of friends, the cheer of fame and fruitful labor; and he became at last, "On fortune's crowning slope, The pillar of a people's hope, The center of a world's desire." * <. Simplex Munditiis BY BEN JONSON. Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast... | |
 | 1912 - 462 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...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 lesson; and the thoughtful... | |
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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,... 
