 | Blind - 1892 - 448 pages
...blind man "to take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them." He has been a man " 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; And makes by force his merit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 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... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 718 pages
...great. " 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 breasta the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit... | |
 | Hiram Corson - English language - 1892 - 250 pages
...his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, — Ivi. 3. 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 ; — Ixiv. 2. And moving up... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...should not appear to his neighbors as a * * * 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 bis merit... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 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 - 1895 - 230 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... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 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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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,... 
