...'neath the heel of the hireling invader, They may spoil, they may rend, but they cannot de grade her. * "To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Let them subjugate nature — enraged, let them seek To drain the broad waste of the blue Chesapeake,...

...CHAPTER VIII. THE ECCLESIASTICAL " As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began ; ***** Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...merit known, And lives to clutch the golden keys." — Tennyson. ON the 2nd of March, 1791, the Methodist Connexion sustained a heavy loss in the death...

...predicted, he lived revered, he died revered, and his memory was held sacred by the children of earth. " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star, ********* And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's...

...kind Tom ! I do hope he will come back for his Christmas roast beef. CHAPTER XIII. " Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green ;...invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance." • — TENNYSON. LAST night Evan came up to Plas Mawr. He came immediately after dinner, when uncle...

...Tennyson. To the elder of the two a happier fate has been assigned. Early in his career it was given him " To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne," and to be, indeed, what his schoolfellow once promised to be, " A potent voice in Parliament, A pillar...

...will, is constantly removing mountains, accomplishing that which is pronounced impossible. " \VTio breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star, " lie can do wonders — almost all things are possible to him. Let the same mind and will and activity...

...invidious bar," force his talents on the notice of mankind, reach at last " Fortune's crowning slope," " Mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." * But Mrs. Hunn had a deeper joy still, and it consisted in this — that George never slighted her....

...life in low estate began And on a simple village greeu ; Who breaks his birth's Invldlons bar, Aud grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, Aud grapples with his evil star; \Vho makes by force his merit known, And lives to cintch the golden...

...Dost thou look back? 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 ; Who...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne : Ut meminit nostri? Terraene caelo perfrueris memor, qualem insiti divinitus ingeni dotes in angustis...

...circumstances under which we are compelled to act, we must put forth the vivida vis animi of him " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the...of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star." We must place ourselves en rapport with the circumstances ; strike with, not against, the forces of...