| Conduct of life - 1881 - 476 pages
...the master works and chief men of each race : Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, 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... | |
| Missouri Bar Association - Bar associations - 1915 - 274 pages
...confidence and the following of every loyal citizen, and in the searchlight of the present crisis is as one Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breaks the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 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 S. Key - 1882 - 98 pages
...hath beenr 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... | |
| A B. Mackay - 1882 - 162 pages
...heard 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 blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. Who makes by force his merit... | |
| James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 832 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 blows of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes by force his merit... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1882 - 656 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... | |
| William Mathews - Success - 1883 - 396 pages
...circumstances under which we are compelled to act, we must put forth the vivida vis animi of him " 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." We must place ourselves en... | |
| Middlefield (Mass.) - 1883 - 112 pages
...speaks 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 blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes by force his merit... | |
| Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...lines: — " 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... | |
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