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 Canadian Magazine - Seite 189herausgegeben von - 1901Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1911 - 518 Seiten
...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,...though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic... | |
| 1893 - 844 Seiten
...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,... | |
| 1902 - 902 Seiten
...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...though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." I have never asked, it is true, whether... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 Seiten
...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 Seiten
...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 right were worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 Seiten
...? Let Browning say what we cannot:— " 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." ELSIE RHODES. [ 233 ] /roin t\)t Pfrsian... | |
| 1895 - 512 Seiten
...for the pharmacist to be endowed with the spirit so graphically described by Robert Browning: — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent... | |
| 1901 - 834 Seiten
...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 right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' ' He is not dead but sleeps; no good... | |
| 1918 - 900 Seiten
...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... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1890 - 548 Seiten
...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,...though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' And in those other lines of twelve years... | |
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