 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...  Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life - Page 223by Orison Swett Marden - 1916 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...hath heen, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life iu 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 known And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life hi 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 known And lives... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 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 known And lives... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; 1 Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chin«, And breasts the blows cf circumsua«, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 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 known And lives... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 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 breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 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 breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | James Payn - English fiction - 1859 - 464 pages
...enterprise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began to quote from the " In Memoriam," " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance, I hope, however, old boy ; let us... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 211 pages
...some divinely gifted man, \Vhosc life in low estate began ;j ' j Anll on .; simple village green : Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, j] . And breasts thc blows of circinnstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by foree his... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 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 known And lives... | |
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