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 Cornhill Magazine - Page 594edited by - 1916Full view - About this book
| 1911 - 518 pages
...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,...dreamed, 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... | |
| 1893 - 844 pages
...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 pages
...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...dreamed, 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,... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...? 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... | |
| 1895 - 512 pages
...for the pharmacist to be endowed with the spirit so graphically described by Robert Browning: — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...dreamed, 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 pages
...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... | |
| 1918 - 900 pages
...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 pages
...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,...dreamed, 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... | |
| 1890 - 668 pages
...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...dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." Unitarian Catechism BY MJ SAVAGE... | |
| 1916 - 714 pages
...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...dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. It was voted that the Executive... | |
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