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 World's Best Poetry ... - Strana 3601904Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 str.
...imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, — Pity me ? Oh, to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to...worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, arc baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the... | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck - 1893 - 670 str.
...that unflinching loyalty to his ideal, which neither praise nor blame can turn aside; for Browning was "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." Francis B. Hornbrooke. WHERE SHAKESPEARIAN CRITICS DISAGREE. " IF I do not keep step with my companions,... | |
| George Angier Gordon - 1893 - 338 str.
...precious memorial of faith, and an invigorating impulse to a like assurance in less gifted minds : — " 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 choer ! Bid him forward,... | |
| James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1893 - 590 str.
...selfish, views of life, retards effort, and checks the spirit of enterprise. Browning speaks of— "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better ; Sleep to wake." This subject is capable of application in various ways. The optimism of Isaiah, Christ, Paul, and John... | |
| Evelyn M. Noble - 1893 - 120 str.
...to our last witness, let us pause one moment to let Browning speak his own character and epitaph. " One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." Noble lines for a poet's farewell to the world, but not nobler than the life which made it possible... | |
| Thomas Campbell Finlayson - 1893 - 406 str.
...as losing our influence by turning our eyes too much upon it. When we can say of any man that " He never turned his back, but marched breast forward,...rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake," then we know that such a man is sure to have exercised spiritual power over others. When any man marches... | |
| Maria S. Porter - 1893 - 86 str.
...as plain to see." What vigor there is in that marvellous Epilogue, the last poem that he wrote : — "One who never turned his back, but marched breast...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight belter, Sleep to wake. " No, at noonday in the bustle of man's work time Greet the unseen with... | |
| Sir Henry Peto (bart.) - 1893 - 150 str.
...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. RA1LWAY AND OTHER WORKS EXECUTED BY SIB MOETON PETO (EXCLUS1VE OF BU1LD1NG... | |
| Oakland (Calif.). Yule club - 1893 - 62 str.
...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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 178 str.
...imprisoned — Low he lies who once so loved you, whom you loved so, —Pity me ? Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken ! What had I on earth to...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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