 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
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 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. So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid, ixxii. Thy leaf has perished... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1883 - 112 Seiten
...blows 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 from high to higher, Becomes on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The... | |
 | Longmeadow centennial comm - 1884 - 468 Seiten
...on a simple village green. 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." But if few great things can be reported of the later children of this village, it is fitting to say,... | |
 | Longmeadow (Mass.) - 1884 - 470 Seiten
...on a simple village green. 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." But if few great things can be reported of the later children of this village, it is fitting to say,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 302 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 - 1885 - 546 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 - 1886 - 694 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... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1874 - 720 Seiten
...the people's tribune :— " Who makes by force his merits known, And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; The war was fought with a valour worthy of a better cause. Young Anstruthcr on the Alma, rushing... | |
 | Holland Society of New York - 1896 - 290 Seiten
...great and martyred President, " Who made by birth his merit known, And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne." That spirit stood for us at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge, it clubbed its muskets at Bunker Hill,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1887 - 232 Seiten
...with his evil stars ; Who makes by force bis 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, Becomes, on fortune's crowning slope, 155 Address of Mr. BRADY, of Virginia.... | |
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