 Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 3441853Full view - About this book
 | 1862 - 394 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. An article on Thackeray without a comparison with Dickens, would to many look like the play of Hamlet,... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize' Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail,...— The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first "f Chrislmas-days ; The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then ; Glory to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman, \f A gentleman, or old or young ! (Bear kindly with my humble lays) ; The sacred chorus first was sung... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...And bow before the awful will, And bear it with an honest heart. " Who misses or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail. or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman. MANNERS. 75 " A gentleman, or old or young! (Bear kindly with my humble lay.) The sacred chorus first... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855 - 526 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail,...The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas days : The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then : Glory to Heaven... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail,...The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas days : The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then : Glory to Heaven... | |
 | 1856 - 560 pages
...Awful Will ; And bear it with an honest heart, 194 WM Thackeray, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman." His fatalism is connected with a strong sense of the powerlessness of the human will. He is a profound... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1857 - 290 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize ? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail,...The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas days. The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it there : Glory to heaven... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses, or who wins the prize? Go, lose or conquer as you can : But if you fail,...The sacred chorus first was sung Upon the first of Christmas days: The shepherds heard it overhead — The joyful angels raised it then : Glory to Heaven... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...And bow before the Awful Will ; And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses, or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman." His fatalism is connected with a strong sense of the powerlessness of the human will. He is a profound... | |
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