 | 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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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 happy...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 - 682 pages
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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 happy...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 - 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... | |
 | 1861 - 594 pages
...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 - 810 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1861 - 600 pages
...conjure up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the hill, the stream, and the friend that was liis... | |
 | Medicine - 1861 - 712 pages
...excellent specimen of the rigid, upright, shrewd Scotsman, who " Breaks his birth's invidious bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." At the Medico- Chirurgical Society on Wednesday night Dr. Stewart, a new member, read an able paper... | |
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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,... 
