 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 - Page 151865Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...ilittory of Home, 88, ch. T. " Who mokes 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," if he be not directly and by name connected with some memorable event, or be immediately laid hold... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...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, LXII.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...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, LXII.... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...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 of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning sl^ie The pillar of a people's hope. The... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...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 ; He past : a soul of nobler tone : My spirit loved and loves him yet, Like some poor girl whose heart... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...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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