 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...hath been, As some 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 chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...hath been, As some 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 chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1878 - 688 pages
...hath been, As some 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 chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star ; Who mnkcs by force his merit... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1878 - 700 pages
...was a great pity that a girl should be superior to her station in life. A man was different. He often '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.' But for a woman, there was,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 518 pages
...steps of some 1 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 chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merits... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 402 pages
...of some — " ' 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 chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star: Who makes by force his merit... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...Samuel iv. 9. " Fungar vice istis, acutum Reddere quoe furum valet, exsors ipsa secundi." — Horace. " 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." — Tennyson. CHAPTER VIII.... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 pages
...steps of some ' 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 chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; ' Who makes by force his merit... | |
 | Jean L. Watson - Authors, Scottish - 1880 - 158 pages
...been, As some 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 chance, And brunts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes, by force his merit... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 pages
...steps of some ' 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 chance, And breasts the blow of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merits... | |
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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,... 
