 | United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland) - 1839 - 596 Seiten
...proudly remembered that to every American citizen the way is open to fame and station, until he — , Moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's...of a People's hope, The center of a World's desire. Nor can we forget that it also teaches our people a sad and distressing lesson; and the thoughtful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 - 228 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 Seiten
...her till the day draws by ; At night she weeps, "How vainaml! How should he love a thing so low ?" And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The following poem, descriptive of Mary after the resurrection of Lazarus, proves how well Mr. Tennyson's... | |
 | 1850 - 682 Seiten
...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 centre of a world's desire ; Yet feels, as in a pensive dream,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,...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,... | |
 | Eliza Ann Bacon - 1857 - 376 Seiten
...fact 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, The centre of a world's desire.'. What a day was that when we first entered the mysterious retreat, —... | |
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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,... 
