 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 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... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1896 - 420 pages
...as do so many others, as one of the most genial, frank, honorable, and lovable of men, and as one " 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." ' SECRETARY STATE BORTIdMDRAL... | |
 | Christian union - 1892 - 460 pages
...a half years old, in 1838, by • Sir Lyon Playfair. by opposing end them." He has been as 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... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1897 - 582 pages
...sentimental doctrine of fatalism, — you must but can't, you ought but it is impossible. Give me the 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." It is only the ignorant and... | |
 | 1881 - 798 pages
...DEATH. " ... 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 circnmstance, And grapples with his evil star ; ' ' Who makes by force his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Poetry - 1907 - 608 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 - 1908 - 610 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... | |
 | Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...London : 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. Although half a century has lapsed, the town is much the same... | |
 | Henry Howard - Bible - 1910 - 266 pages
...barrier for the challenge of our powers. But we are not dealing at present with the case of the 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. This is not the class of limitation... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl. From cape to cape, with a bridge-like 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,... 
