 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 North American Review - Página 6701888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1856 - 834 páginas
...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 golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne," if he be not directly and by... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; He past : a soul of nobler tone... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit 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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit 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,... | |
 | 1850 - 682 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, Au4 shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit 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,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...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 skirts of...merit 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,... | |
 | 1861 - 594 páginas
...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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