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. Proceedings - Sida 221efter Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1890Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Oakland (Calif.). Yule club - 1893 - 62 sidor
...brother's gladness glad. —AE Hamilton. One who never turned his back but marched breastforward ; Never doubted clouds would break ; Never dreamed,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. —Browning. • Vanity makes us wish to be superior to others ; moral aspiration, to be superior to... | |
| Sir Henry Peto (bart.) - 1893 - 150 sidor
...to the subject of this little memoir : ' One who never turned his back but marched breast for. ward, Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Ad finem fidelis. APPENDIX. RAILWAY AND OTHER WORKS EXECUTED BY SIE MOETON PETO (EXCLUSIVE OF BUILDING... | |
| Anne Thackeray Ritchie - 1893 - 240 sidor
...turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break ; Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, Wrong would triumph. Held —...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." THE END SOME LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES. Bos-well's Life of Johnson, including Boswell's Journal of a Tour... | |
| Esther Phoebe Defries - 1893 - 176 sidor
...back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right was worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." SUBJECT.—Browning has, out of the many subjects open to poetic treatment, deliberately chosen for... | |
| Frederic Allen Hinckley - 1894 - 108 sidor
...fitting epitaph which Browning unconsciously wrote for himself, when we puss on, may tit us, too, — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." Dear friends, are we marching breast forward, do we believe in the sunshine behind every cloud, have... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 860 sidor
...with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless did 1 drivel — Being — who? One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 sidor
...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,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast... | |
| 1894 - 764 sidor
...turned his back, but marched breast-forward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed, tho' rIght were worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held we...rise, are baffled to fight better ; Sleep to wake.' Because, in spite of some great mistakes, he lived and died the hero and apostle of the new, the religious... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 626 sidor
...never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."* Thus in this great English poet of our own day we find that deep religious earnestness, that astounding... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1894 - 628 sidor
...forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would tri umph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."* Thus in this great English poet of our own day we find that deep religions earnestness, that astounding... | |
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