 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.  The Methodist Review - Page 4061897Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1890 - 758 pages
...the faith that Love was stronger than Power, has left us in the Epilogue his own best epitaph : — " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. Henry S. Pancoast. PHILADELPHIA, PENN. PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY. Volume I.... | |
 | 1890 - 492 pages
...with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being — who i One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noon-day in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...news reached us of his death, should ring with all the splendid courage of the great poet's prime: "One who never turned his back but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. "No, ut noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast... | |
 | 1890 - 624 pages
...to tell us who wrote these verses. To quote his own words from the little volume before us, he is " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noon-day in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer ! Bid him forward, breast... | |
 | 1890 - 882 pages
...Epilogue to " Asolando," published the day before his death, he thus writes his own epitaph^:— " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." OLD COUNTRY LIFE, by the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD (i voL IQS. 6d. Methuen), is a collection of various... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 176 pages
...you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to do 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,... | |
 | 1890 - 528 pages
...Rephan " he magnificently announces his faith in labor and progress. His epilogue is his epitaph : "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." The message, indeed, of Robert Browning lias been of constant encouragement, not denying the existence... | |
 | William Sharp - 1890 - 260 pages
...his toil, is the beauty of his dream. It was "a surpassing Spirit" that went from out our midst. " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ~" Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here ! " are the last words of this brave soul. In truth, "... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 588 pages
...He died, as he lived, — to quote from his last published lines, the Epilogue to * Asolando,' — ' One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' As facts in the mental history, as products of human thought, as clues to the meaning of the soul,... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...and sunny face. His friends think he is the best conversationalist in the world. ROBERT BROWNING. NE 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... | |
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