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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,... "
The Foster Brothers: Being a History of the School and College Life of Two ... - Page 366
by James Payn - 1859 - 423 pages
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Essays in History and Biography: Including the Defence of Mary Stuart

Sir John Skelton - Great Britain - 1883 - 378 pages
...applied to Mr Disraeli the fine lines which are to be found in the finest of our memorial poems :— " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumatanoe, And grapples with hi s evil star ; Who makes by force his merit...
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Essays in history and biography

Sir John Skelton - Great Britain - 1883 - 374 pages
...applied to Mr Disraeli the fine lines which are to be found in the finest of our memorial poems : — " 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: (poet Laureate) from ..., Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 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...
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Lyrical Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 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...
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Lyrical Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1885 - 302 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...
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Hand-book of Prohibition: 1885

Andrew J. Jutkins - Prohibition - 1885 - 218 pages
...chords: "As some divinelv-gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And ou a simple village greeu ; 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 worth his merits...
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some 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...
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The Story of Rasmus: Or, The Making of a Man

Julia McNair Wright - American fiction - 1886 - 340 pages
...of grog-shops over to the island, every time. Poor kids ! " CHAPTER XII. • THE WIDENING WORLD. " 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." DAY after day drifted slowly...
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The Imperial Highway: Essays on Business and Home Life, with Biographies of ...

Jerome Paine Bates - Conduct of life - 1886 - 882 pages
...chess-board, but takes the one before it, and plays the best game " possible under existing combinations. " 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," is, in nine cases out of ten,...
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Gloucestershire Biographical Notes

Joseph Stratford - Gloucestershire (England) - 1887 - 384 pages
...Tennyson's " 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," till, conquering all difficulties,...
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