 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 Elementary School Teacher - Side 4421907Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1911 - 518 sider
...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... | |
 | 1893 - 844 sider
...a great mission, or more fitly embody a sublime faith in the continuance of the soul's existence ? One who never turned his back, but marched breast...Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would trinmph, Held we fall to rise again ; are baffled, to fight better, Sleep, to wake ! No ! At noonday,... | |
 | 1896 - 926 sider
...her? Let Browning say what we cannot: — One who never turned his back, but marched breast-forward: Never doubted clouds would break: Never dreamed, though...worsted. wrong would triumph: Held we fall to rise. are bafflcil to fight better, Sleep to wake. EI.OIE RHODES. From The Contemporary Review. LONDON REVISITED.... | |
 | 1902 - 902 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 sider
...Curtain falls.] VOL. XL.— NO. 239 NS 88 SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM, KCB, FRS BY ADMIRAL SIR ALBERT MARKHAM. ' One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...dreamed though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.' CLEMENTS ROBERT MARKHAM was born on July 20, 1830, and had therefore reached his eighty-sixth year... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 sider
...? 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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1918 - 900 sider
...Conventions, nd the many who had the privilege of his friendship will miss te cheer in the companionship of One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, '•ever dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, ield we fall to rise, are baffled... | |
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