 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,...  Speeches, 1864-1887 - Page 7by Edwards Pierrepont - 1868Full view - About this book
 | England - 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...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...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 a people's hope,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...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...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 a people's hope,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...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...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 a people's hope,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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...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 - 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...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...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 a people's hope,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...chance, j] . And breasts thc blows of circinnstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by foree his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's deerees, And shupe the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Heeomes on Fortune's... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...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...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 a people's hope,... | |
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