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" Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray... "
The Public Schools from Within: A Collection of Essays on Public School ... - Page 295
by Public Schools - 1906 - 300 pages
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Calcutta Review, Volume 37

India - 1862 - 394 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. An article on Thackeray without a comparison with Dickens, would to many look like the play of Hamlet,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 19

Literature - 1853 - 842 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And hear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize Î Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman, A gentleman, or old or young! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) ; The sacred chorus first was sung...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 20

American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize' Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) — The sacred chorus first was sung...
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Doctor Birch and His Young Friends

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman, \f A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) ; The sacred chorus first was sung...
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Social and Political Morality

William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...And bow before the awful will, And bear it with an honest heart. " Who misses or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail. or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. MANNERS. 75 " A gentleman, or old or young! (Bear kindly with my humble lay.) The sacred chorus first...
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Miscellanies: Ballads. The book of snobs. The tremendous adventures of Major ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) ; The sacred chorus first was sung...
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The National Review, Volume 2

1856 - 560 pages
...Awful Will ; And bear it with an honest heart, 194 WM Thackeray, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman." His fatalism is connected with a strong sense of the powerlessness of the human will. He is a profound...
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Ballads (gathered by the author from his own books, and various periodicals).

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays ;) The sacred chorus first was sung...
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Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball ; Our Street ; Dr. Birch

William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas - 1857 - 290 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman, A gentleman, or old or young : (Bear kindly with my humble lays), The sacred chorus first was sung...
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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays ;) The sacred chorus first was sung...
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