 | 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,...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic in its intensity, and survived... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 926 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1896 - 858 Seiten
...master's pessimism have " Never iloubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wr would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to tight better, Sleep to wake." The message of despair which lis sometimes appears to utter, was in part the result of temperament.... | |
 | 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...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." I have never asked, it is true, whether in detail he lived up to what... | |
 | 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...would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone possesses no ideas — his ideas... | |
 | 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...would triumph; Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ELSIE RHODES. [ 233 ] /roin t\)t Pfrsian of gaff). GIVE not thy tresses... | |
 | 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...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent opportunity to associate for... | |
 | 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...would triumph. Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' ' He is not dead but sleeps; no good man dies, But like the day-star... | |
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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. 
