 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,...  Beginnings of Faith and Science - Pagina 207door Ezra Morgan Wood - 1903 - 221 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pagina’s
...hath been As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life hi low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...hath heen, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life iu low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pagina’s
...been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pagina’s
...been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pagina’s
...some divinely gifted man, \Vhosc life in low estate began ;j ' j Anll on .; simple village green : Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, j] . And breasts thc blows of circinnstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by foree his... | |
 | James Payn - 1859 - 464 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pagina’s
...hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps 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... | |
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