 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
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1905
...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 Glass'd in my soul, took all the hues of glory, And lured me on to those inspiring... | |
 | Charles Frederic Aked - 1907 - 251 ページ
...advantages at all ! As you contemplate the victories of initiative, of enterprise, of industry over " those twin gaolers of the daring heart, low birth and iron fortune," you begin to think that you have found the royal road to prosperity, that it consists in being poor,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Frederic George Kitton - 1908 - 625 ページ
...what he has done, in wresting some enlightenment and self-respect from what Lord Lytton finely calls: Those twin gaolers of the daring heart, Low birth and iron fortune, i , . ii or in your own observation, and as it may be safely assumed that there can be very few persons... | |
 | Lauron William De Laurence - 1914 - 410 ページ
...been 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,... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 836 ページ
...i 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1958 - 326 ページ
...class. Some lines from a play by Bulwer-Lytton, lines which he knew by heart, embody his own story: 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. In David Copperfield, when the hero speaks... | |
 | Robert C. Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1967 - 326 ページ
...class. Some lines from a play by Bulwer-Lytton, lines which he knew by heart, embody his own story: 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. In David Copperfield, when the hero speaks... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879
...chains of hard necessity, of misfortune, pain, or loss ; sometimes, indeed, by what Lytton calls — "Those twin gaolers of the daring heart, Low birth and iron fortune." But according to Milton all these chains of trouble and care can, by the combined power of music and... | |
 | 1902
...the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter. 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. For thee I grew A midnight student o'er the dreams of sages: For thee I sought to borrow from each... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 632 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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