 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...furrow musing stands ; " Does my old friend remember me ?" Dost thou look back on what hath been As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...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 - 272 pages
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXII. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...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 - 236 pages
...orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. 87 LXII. Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...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
...a deeper deep. 87 DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life hi low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who...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
...deeper deep. LXI. DOST thou look back on what hath heen, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life iu low estate began And on a simple village green ; Who...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
...fields I know, And thine in undiecover'd hinds. If. 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 ; 1 Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chin«, And breasts the blows... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIII. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...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
...name. TENNYSON. THE STATESMAN. FROM " IN MEJIORIA1I." DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...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
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. ucn. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...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 - 211 pages
...back on what hath bccn, As 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... | |
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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,... 
