 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...  In Memoriam - 88 psl.autoriai: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1883 - 304 psl.
...gentlemen, the true heroic man all the more lays himself to the work and seizes his opportunity. He • " Grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star, And makes by force his merits known," and thus raises himself to be the centre of fortunate surroundings.... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1883 - 378 psl.
...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 known, And lives to clutch... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 psl.
...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Jbid. Who battled for the True, the Just. Ibid. lv. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Ibid. Ixiii. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 psl.
...to heaven, By doing deeds of hospitality. 677 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc 4 CIRCUMSTANCES. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. 678 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. Ixiii. St. 2. CITIZEN. Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His... | |
 | Longmeadow centennial comm - 1884 - 468 psl.
...home of such a man as Tennyson sings. " Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green. Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch...State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." But if few great things can be reported of the later children of this village, it is fitting to say,... | |
 | Longmeadow (Mass.) - 1884 - 470 psl.
...home of such a man as Tennyson sings. " Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green. Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch...State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." But if few great things can be reported of the later children of this village, it is fitting to say,... | |
 | Andrew J. Jutkins - 1885 - 218 psl.
...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...circumstance And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by worth his merits known, And grasps'the future's golden key, To mold a mighty state's decree And shape... | |
 | Julia McNair Wright - 1886 - 340 psl.
...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...of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star." DAY after day drifted slowly by, as our travellers faced the rising suns, and, leaving their shadows... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 psl.
...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...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star," is, in nine cases out of ten, the fortunate and successful man. Every man is placed more or less under... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1874 - 720 psl.
...in the following lines a truer portrait of the people's tribune :— " Who makes by force his merits known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould...State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; The war was fought with a valour worthy of a better cause. Young Anstruthcr on the Alma, rushing... | |
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