 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,...  Macmillan's Magazine - Seite 151865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...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, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. Ibid. Ixiii. And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Ibid. Ixiii. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. Thy leaf... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1868 - 468 Seiten
...of circumstance, And made by force, his merit known ; And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And, moving up froai high to higher, Becomes, on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope,... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - 1869 - 660 Seiten
...'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,... | |
 | St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1881 - 352 Seiten
...the Holy Ghost. ICor.vi. 11 He made by force his merit known, And lived to clutch the golden keys — To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." TKITNTBOIT. FOR late earl of ЭЗшопзйШг, BY THE EDITOR. jHE late Earl of Beaconsfield was distinguished... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1870 - 384 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 Seiten
...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, and shape the whisper of the throne : and moving up from high to higher, becomes on Fortune's crowning slope the pillar of a people's hope, the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 Seiten
...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, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 334 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 Seiten
...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, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
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