 | Jean L. Watson - 1880 - 158 pages
...Miller may fitly be applied the words of the poet— " Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life, in low estate began,...invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And brunts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; " Who makes, by force his merit... | |
 | Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society - 1880 - 64 pages
...contrast between youth and manhood, that he fairly won a place beside the self-made public benefactor, Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. His intellectual force was no less remarkable than his invincible spirit. The school advantages of... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Riddle - 1880 - 456 pages
...ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some " Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estpte began, And on a simple village green; " Who breaks...grasps the skirts, of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; "Who makes his force by merit known, And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1880 - 320 pages
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIV. Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...village green ; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, Andgrasps the skirts of happy chance, Andbreaststheblowsof circumstance, And grapples with his evil... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...Samuel iv. 9. " Fungar vice istis, acutum Reddere quoe furum valet, exsors ipsa secundi." — Horace. " 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." — Tennyson. CHAPTER VIII. R. SMILES, in... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 426 pages
...England's great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys. To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; ' And moving up from high to higher,... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 430 pages
...England's great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper ol the throne ; ' And moving up from high to higher,... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 pages
...England's great laureate — written thirty years ago — in which he traces the upward steps of some ' Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...' Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to elutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; 'And... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIV. 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... | |
 | 1881 - 328 pages
...poem of his favorite author, as a tribute to his predecessor in martyrdom, Abraham Lincoln: " 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 merits known, And lives... | |
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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,... 
