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
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless did I drivel —Being — who? One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, arc baffled to fight belter, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's... | |
| Frederic Allen Hinckley - 1894 - 108 pages
...fitting epitaph which Browning unconsciously wrote for himself, when we pass on, may fit us, too, — " 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." Dear friends, are we marching breast... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 pages
...slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless did I drivel —Being—who ? 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 belter, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 514 pages
...Browning, who sings of himself in words which are at once an epitaph and a closing song of triumph, as " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would brpak, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1895 - 384 pages
...the world's helots." "God's prophets, best or worst, are we — there is no last or first." vi. i7. One who never turned his back, but marched breast...dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise again, are baffled to fight better, Sleep, to wake! BROWNING. But God, who is... | |
| Arthur Edward Giles - 1895 - 202 pages
...So the proper attitude of the individual and the race is hope, and the imitation of the spirit of " 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." CHAPTER XX. TREATMENT. THE great... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...AWP; EBEV; NAEL-2; NOBW; NoP; OAEL-2; WGRP Asolando 11 Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken! 12 EL-3; SCV 13 Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Carlyle) Most unheroic. ELIZAUETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-61), English pool. Aurora Leigh, bk. 5(1857). 8 ' , Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89), English... | |
| Rudolf Steiner - 1996 - 214 pages
...Nothing is omitted, good and evil are all there, and with that evil the faith expressed by 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. Matthew Arnold, too, says, ' By nothing... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...in Life of Galileo, sc. 13. Responding to Andrea's remark, "Unhappy the land that has no heroes." 3 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. 4 The drying up a single tear has... | |
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