 | 1911 - 518 pages
...Robert Browning, he was ever a fighter, ' 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.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic in its intensity, and survived the rudest shocks. He was... | |
 | 1840 - 538 pages
...thee." Oh, no — none ever did, or ever shall prevail against the Lord. Fight on then, O believer — the issue is not doubtful ; for, " if God be for us, who can be against us ? " God must be conquered before one of his children can be lost ; the battle is the... | |
 | 1896 - 926 pages
...been said. How convey what she was to those who knew her? Let Browning say what we cannot: — One who never turned his back, but marched breast-forward:...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.... | |
 | 1893 - 844 pages
...the continuance of the soul's existence ? One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. 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,... | |
 | 1902 - 902 pages
...than the courage of success. One, he was, " who never turned bis back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though...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 - 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 pages
...KCB, FRS BY ADMIRAL SIR ALBERT MARKHAM. ' One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 pages
...said. How convey what she was to those who knew her ? Let Browning say what we cannot:— " One who never turned his back, but marched breast-forward;...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1895 - 512 pages
...graphically described by Robert Browning: — " 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." In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent opportunity to associate for its advancement and protection,... | |
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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. 
