| Suffolk Bar - 1910 - 52 pages
...of conviction and unfailing courage. He was a man of all others who might have said with Henley, " And yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid." He was a great magistrate, and in the practical administration of justice had few equals. He enjoyed... | |
| Poetry - 1911 - 72 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of Circumstance I have not winced...the bludgeonings of Chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
| United States - 1911 - 190 pages
...from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For ray unconquerable soul. In the strong stress of circumstance' I have not winced nor cried aloud;...chance My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this vale of wrath and tears Looms a bright vista through the shade, So that the menace of the years Joyfully... | |
| Austin O'Malley - Alcoholism - 1913 - 336 pages
...capacity of unaided human nature, still exists as an apotheosis of self-conceit. "Beyond this vale of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade,...matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul !" Pretty rhetoric,... | |
| Van Wyck Brooks - Authors, French - 1913 - 120 pages
...tone, which echoes in a minor key and without defiance the loud fatalism of Henley's Invictus— " Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the...menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid." That Roman quality, that conception of antique virtue, exists in Ryecroft and Obermann alike, with... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
| Sir Philip Hartog - Essay - 1913 - 24 pages
...WE Henley : Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, 6 RECORD OR MESSAGE In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced...the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbow'd. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace... | |
| Robert Marion La Follette - Presidents - 1913 - 872 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul. "In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged... | |
| Robert Marion La Follette - Presidents - 1913 - 1012 pages
...covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul. "In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged... | |
| Gaius Glenn Atkins - Christian biography - 1913 - 352 pages
...own spirit, thanking whatever gods there be, not for a world in which all that is is good, but that " In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeon ings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed." Then once more the mood changes ; he seeks... | |
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