 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,...  The Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 1561901Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...of thine 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...the 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...circuits of 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...are in the 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 - 1851 - 422 pages
...of 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...his evil star ; "Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...everlasting 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, Au4 shape the whisper of the... | |
 | American essays - 1886 - 910 pages
...forgetting," then how far backward over our days can the uninterrupted " I " be fairly said to extend ? When " some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green," at last " breaks his birth's invidious bar," and passes on to new desires, new opinions, at last a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...circuits of 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...his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the... | |
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