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 - الصفحة 88بواسطة Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 210عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 834
...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... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...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... | |
| 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...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... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 552
..." 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... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 211
...back on what hath bccn, As 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 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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... | |
| 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...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... | |
| 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...Commons, to two of whom it has been given to be members of the Cabinet, or again as Tennyson says, " To mould a mighty state's decrees And shape the whisper of the throne," and the other of whom is one of our ablest parliamentary orators. The three are Mr. Walpole, Lord Stanley,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...deeper deep. LXIII. TAOST 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...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... | |
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