Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; And, with such jewels as the exploring Mind Brings from the caves of Knowledge, buy my ransom From those twin gaolers of the daring heart — Low Birth and iron Fortune. The matchmaker, by the author of 'Cousin Geoffrey'. - 237 ページHarriet Maria Gordon Smythies 著 - 1842全文表示 - この書籍について
| Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...caves of Knowledge, buy my ransom From those twin jailers of the daring heart — Low birth and iron fortune. Thy bright image, Glass'd in my soul, took... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...of the daring heart— Low birth and iron fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul, took all the hues of glory, And lured me on to those inspiring... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1870 - 406 ページ
...passed in a continual fight for bread, and whose whole existence has been a constant wrestle with " Those twin gaolers of the daring heart— Low birth and iron fortune."* I could not but consider, with extraordinary admiration, that these questions have been replied to,... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 226 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...of the daring heart — Low Birth and iron Fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul, took all the hues of glory, And lured me on to those inspiring... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. her nest ; We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow...the apple-tree. What plant we in this apple-tree jailers of the daring heart, — Low birth and iron fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul,... | |
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...of the daring heart — Low birth and iron fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul, took all the hues of glory, And lured me on to those inspiring... | |
| 1884 - 794 ページ
...home In the soft palaco of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate ; A.id, with such jewels as the exploring mind Brings from the caves of knowledge, buy my ransom From... | |
| James Ridgway - 1873 - 360 ページ
...homo In the soft palace of a fairy Future! My father died; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...of the daring heart — Low Birth and iron Fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul, took all the hues of glory, And lured me on to those inspiring... | |
| Star reciter - 1873 - 330 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...buy my ransom From those twin gaolers of the daring heartLow Birth and iron Fortune. Thy bright image, Glass'd in my soul, took all the hues of glory,... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 ページ
...home In the soft palace of a fairy Future ! My father died ; and I, the peasant-born, Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean...caves of Knowledge, buy my ransom From those twin jailers of the daring heart — Low Birth and iron Fortune. Thy bright image, Glassed in my soul, took... | |
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