 | 1856 - 834 páginas
...of the highest mark and influence in council He * FABINI'S ilittory of Home, 88, ch. T. " Who mokes by force his merit known, And lives to clutch the...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne," if he be not directly and by name connected with some memorable event, or be immediately laid hold... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 páginas
...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...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 páginas
...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...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, LXII. Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 páginas
...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...Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, SB Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still, A distant dearness in the... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 páginas
...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...state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; He past : a soul of nobler tone : My spirit loved and loves him yet, Like some poor girl whose heart... | |
 | 1850 - 682 páginas
...grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to dutch the golden kev«. To mould a mighty state's decrees. And shape the whisper...from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning sl^ie The pillar of a people's hope. The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 páginas
...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...crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream, When all his active powers are still,... | |
 | 1852 - 572 páginas
...that it was seen going up without trembling, settled the happy issue, and the poet sung right, — " And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, What a day was that when we first entered the mysterious retreat — that seven-by-nine little closet... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 páginas
...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, Au4 shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes, on Fortune's crowning... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 332 páginas
...Lemoyne. Though proud to be there as the wife of one who had 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, — .her sole anxiety was for her pretty Nina ; who, accompanying Mrs. Hildyard to the gallery, was... | |
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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; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... 
