 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - 872 էջ
...friend hardly ruffled his trustful serenity. Of his own death I cannot write. Browning foresaw it : ' Fear death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 790 էջ
...placed his hand gently beside him, and took the rosary from the other one and hung it round his neck. ' The strong man must go : For the journey is done and the summit attained And the barriers fall. Sudden the worst turns the best to the brave The black minute's at end.' BROWNING. Before very long... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 298 էջ
...small : But I, — whene'er the leaf grows there, Its drop comes from my heart, that 's all. PROSPICE. PROSPICE. FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat,...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 270 էջ
...small : But I,— whene'er the leaf grows there, Its drop comes from my heart, that 's all. PEOSPICE. PROSPICE. FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat,...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 276 էջ
...I, — whene'er the leaf grows there, Its drop comes from my heart, that 's all. PROSPICE. PKOSPICE. FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1864 - 300 էջ
...whene'er the leaf grows there, Its drop comes from my heart, that 's all. PROSPICE, PROSPICE. FEAK death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 էջ
...the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a risible form, Yet the strong man must go : For the journey...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so, — one... | |
 | 1919 - 912 էջ
...occurred as it did, in the midst of his activity and usefulness. One is reminded of Browning's lines: " For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Tho a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 էջ
...Down some deep well, and hears it fall Smiling — so I. THY DATS oo ON. PROSPICE. JRobert Li-owning, Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so — one... | |
 | 1871 - 314 էջ
...the mountain's rim, And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me. PROSPICE. FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat,...the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all. I was ever a fighter, so, — one... | |
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FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form,... 
