 | 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,...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 pathetic... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...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, whether... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1916 - 838 pages
...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 - 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 right were worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone... | |
 | 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 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 Pfrsian... | |
 | British Pharmaceutical Conference - 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...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... | |
 | 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 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 good... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 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 - 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,...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 years... | |
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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. 
