 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pagina’s
...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 - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pagina’s
...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 - 422 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Payn - 1859 - 420 pagina’s
...St. Boniface to Rembroke College, whither he happened to be bound upon some missionary enter. prise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began...Memoriam," "Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and graspe the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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,... 
