 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
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 psl.
...circumstances under 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...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 psl.
...circumstances under 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...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 - 386 psl.
...circumstances under which wo are compelled to act, we must put forth the vivida vis animi of him " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." We must place ourselves en rapport with the circumstances ; strike with, not against, the forces of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 psl.
...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Ibid. liv. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 psl.
...SWIFT. Triumphing tories and desponding whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. SWIFT. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. TENNYSON : In Memoriam. Or that eternal want of peace which vexes public men. TENNYSON : Will Waterproof.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 psl.
...altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God. Ibid. liv. 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 psl.
...himself quoted so effectively in reference to the death of Lincoln : " Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green, Who breaks his birth's invidious bars, And grasps the skirts of happy chance. And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with... | |
 | 1877 - 362 psl.
...public for being eminent. — SWIFT. — The villain's CENSURE is extorted praise. — POPE. Chance. — And grasps the skirts of happy CHANCE, And breasts the blows of circumstance. TENNYSON, In Manoriain. Change. — All is CHANGE, ^voe or weal ; Joy is sorrow's brotlur ; Grief and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 psl.
...deeper deep. LXIV. Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who...circumstance. And grapples with his evil star ; Who mnkcs by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 psl.
...was a great pity that a girl should be superior to her station in life. A man was different. He often 'breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star.' But for a woman, there was, in most cases, nothing for it but to come down to the level of her birth,... | |
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