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. Annals of Iowa - Page 320edited by - 1907Full 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,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic in its intensity, and survived the rudest shocks. He was... | |
| American essays - 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...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." I have never asked, it is true, whether in detail he lived up to what he preached. It does not matter.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1906 - 870 pages
...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...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone possesses no ideas — his ideas possess him.' His genius... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 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...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ELSIE RHODES. [ 233 ] /roin t\)t Pfrsian of gaff). GIVE not thy tresses to the breeze, Lest that mad... | |
| Bible - 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...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' ' He is not dead but sleeps; no good man dies, But like the day-star only sets to rise.' For we may... | |
| British Pharmaceutical Conference - 1895 - 512 pages
...was so essential for the pharmacist to be endowed with the spirit so graphically described by Robert Browning: — " One who never turned his back, but...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." • In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent opportunity to associate for its advancement and protection,... | |
| English periodicals - 1902 - 550 pages
...summed up his courageous, cheerful, yet God-fearing and God-loving creed, characterizing himself as ' One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' The Church, the Churches, and the Mysteries ; or, Revelation and Corruption. By GH PEMBER, MA (London :... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 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,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' And in those other lines of twelve years ago, he has left us an epitaph worthy to be written on the... | |
| Sermons, American - 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...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." Unitarian Catechism BY MJ SAVAGE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EA HORTON Price, Paper, per Copy, .... 20... | |
| Education - 1916 - 762 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...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. It was voted that the Executive Committee be requested to consider whether the business session could... | |
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