 | England - 1856 - 834 pages
...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 name connected with some memorable event, or be immediately laid hold... | |
 | United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland) - United States - 1839 - 596 pages
...proudly remembered that to every American citizen the way is open to fame and station, until he — , Moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's...crowning slope The pillar of a People's hope, The center of a World's desire. Nor can we forget that it also teaches our people a sad and distressing... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...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...of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...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...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, SB Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...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...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, LXII. Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...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...from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning sl^ie The pillar of a people's hope. The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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, 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
...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...of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in the... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...that it was seen going up without trembling, settled the happy issue, and the poet sung right, — " And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, What a day was that when we first entered the mysterious retreat — that seven-by-nine little closet... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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, Au4 shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's crowning... | |
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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,... 
