 | 1861 - 594 strani
...and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks liis birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstanceAnd grapples with his evil star" ! And yet, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 strani
...and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls the hill, the stream, and the friend that was liis... | |
 | 1861 - 712 strani
...excellent specimen of the rigid, upright, shrewd Scotsman, who " Breaks his birth's invidious bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." At the Medico- Chirurgical Society on Wednesday night Dr. Stewart, a new member, read an able paper... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 390 strani
...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, Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 strani
...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, !Vod grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden... | |
 | Marian Frances Fernando - 1870 - 56 strani
...he died revered, and his memory was held sacred by the children of earth. " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star, ********* And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's... | |
 | David Thomas - 1871 - 784 strani
...constantly removing mountains, accomplishing that which is pronounced impossible. " \VTio breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star, " lie can do wonders — almost all things are possible to him. Let the same mind and will and activity... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 strani
...life in low estate began And on a simple village greeu ; Who breaks his birth's Invldlons bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, Aud grapples with his evil star; \Vho makes by force his merit known, And lives to cintch the golden... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 strani
...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,...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." We must place ourselves en rapport with the circumstances ; strike with, not against, the forces of... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 strani
...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,...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." We must place ourselves en rapport with the circumstances; strike with, not against, the forces of... | |
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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... 
