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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. "
Annual Report of the Public Schools of the Province of British Columbia
by British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1897
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 214

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,...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' Haydon's trust in Providence was pathetic in its intensity, and survived...
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The Living Age, Volume 196

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,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 210

Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...her? Let Browning say what we cannot: — One who never turned his back, but marched breast-forward: Never doubted clouds would break: Never dreamed, though...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....
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 43

1896 - 858 pages
...master's pessimism have " Never iloubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wr would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to tight better, Sleep to wake." The message of despair which lis sometimes appears to utter, was in part the result of temperament....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 90

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...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." I have never asked, it is true, whether in detail he lived up to what...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 40; Volume 113

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...
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The Cornhill Magazine

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...would triumph ; Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. Mr. Lowe once cleverly said : ' Gladstone possesses no ideas — his ideas...
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Temple Bar, Volume 108

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...would triumph; Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." ELSIE RHODES. [ 233 ] /roin t\)t Pfrsian of gaff). GIVE not thy tresses...
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Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy ...

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...would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." In 1868 pharmacy was granted a magnificent opportunity to associate for...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 58

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...would triumph. Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.' ' He is not dead but sleeps; no good man dies, But like the day-star...
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