 One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.  The World's Best Poetry ... - Էջ 3601904Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1911 - 518 էջ
...have earlier crushed the spirit of a less sanguine man. Like Robert Browning, he was ever a fighter, ' One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic in its intensity, and survived the rudest shocks. He was... | |
 | 1902 - 902 էջ
...courage of the losing fight no less than the courage of success. One, he was, " who never turned bis back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." I have never asked, it is true, whether in detail he lived up to what he preached. It does not matter.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 էջ
...and then. He was one of those, as Browning said, Wbo never turned hie back but went straightforward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed though...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone possesses no ideas — his ideas possess him.' His genius... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 էջ
...? Let Browning say what we cannot:— " One who never turned his back, but marched breast-forward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed, though...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ELSIE RHODES. [ 233 ] /roin t\)t Pfrsian of gaff). GIVE not thy tresses to the breeze, Lest that mad... | |
 | 1895 - 512 էջ
...for the pharmacist to be endowed with the spirit so graphically described by Robert Browning: — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent opportunity to associate for its advancement and protection,... | |
 | 1901 - 834 էջ
...from the poets came to his service. I quote from "The Value of Character" (1890) : "The true man ' Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' ' He is not dead but sleeps; no good man dies, But like the day-star only sets to rise.' For we may... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1890 - 548 էջ
...he »has told us, in those farewell lines from Asolo, how we are to think of him, now he is gone : ' One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' And in those other lines of twelve years ago, he has left us an epitaph worthy to be written on the... | |
 | 1890 - 668 էջ
...himself, as he drew near the end, may, in some humbler fashion, be as veracious an account of you : — "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." Unitarian Catechism BY MJ SAVAGE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EA HORTON Price, Paper, per Copy, .... 20... | |
 | 1916 - 762 էջ
...years, and has furnished an inspiration to all of us to be exemplars and missionaries of the truth. One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. It was voted that the Executive Committee be requested to consider whether the business session could... | |
 | 1916 - 714 էջ
...years, and has furnished an inspiration to all of us to be exemplars and missionaries of the truth. One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. It was voted that the Executive Committee he requested to consider whether the business session could... | |
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