 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,...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 151865Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys — To mould a might moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slopo The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - English poetry - 1873 - 262 pages
...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 : Ut meminit nostri? Terraene caelo perfrueris memor, qualem insiti divinitus ingeni dotes in angustis... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 pages
...with his evil star ; Who makes hy force his merit known, And lives to clntch the golden keys, To monld a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving np from high to higher, Becomes on Fortnne's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Ibid. Ixiii. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Ibid. Ixiii. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. Thy leaf... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...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 ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...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 ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. SWIFT. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. TENNYSON : In Memoriam. Or that eternal want of peace which vexes public men. TENNYSON : Will Waterproof.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Ibid. Ixiii. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. /'•til Ixiii. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. f Thy... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...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 ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...with his evil stars ; Who makes by force his merit known. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty 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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