 | Charles Henry Fowler - 1910 - 376 páginas
...gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ; Who breaks through birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...circumstance. And grapples with his evil star; Who made by force his merit known, And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty state's decrees,... | |
 | Henry Howard - 1910 - 266 páginas
...challenge of our powers. But we are not dealing at present with the case of the man Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star. This is not the class of limitation which the will of God has fixed, because such obstructions interfere... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 páginas
...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,...breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with bis evil star; "Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a... | |
 | Harry Levi - 1911 - 190 páginas
...When he died the lines were again quoted, for they told the story of his life. "Who breaks his birth's invidious bar And grasps the skirts of happy chance,...grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merits known. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 páginas
...can't, you ought, but it is impossible. Give me the man who faces what he must, " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance....of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." The indomitable will, the inflexible purpose, will find a way or make one. There is always room for... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 páginas
...to heaven, By doing deeds of hospitality. 677 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc 4 CIRCUMSTANCES. And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. 678 Tenngson: In Memoriam. Pt. Ixiii. St. 2 CITIZEN. Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1912 - 346 páginas
...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,...blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star0 ; iii Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys,0 To mould a mighty... | |
 | Olive Christian Malvery MacKirdy ("Mrs. Archibald MacKirdy") - 1912 - 466 páginas
...manufacturers and shop-keepers who are good to their workpeople. CHAPTER XXII A NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN " And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance." — TENNYCON. MANY ladies' papers in this country occasionally devote a couple of columns or so of... | |
 | New York State Historical Association, New York State Historical Association. Meeting - 1913 - 494 páginas
...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,...of circumstance And grapples with his evil star." JOHN RUTGER PLANTEN. The descendants of the "Knickerbockers" are proud of their ancestors and justly... | |
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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... 
