 | Methodism - 1890 - 644 pages
...mirage-lifted Isles and Peace." So, too, the veteran Browning dies with this song of triumph upon his lips : " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed tho' right was worsted wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep... | |
 | 1890 - 516 pages
...his favourite poet Browning,— ' Never turned his back, but marched breast forward; Never doubting clouds would break ; Never dreamed, though right were...worsted, wrong would triumph ; Held we fall to rise, arc baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.' " After Mr. Martin had spoken, I added a few words, the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 890 pages
..." Prospice," quoted above — a song of triumph at approaching death, where he writes of himself as One who never turned his back, but marched breast...forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, thouirh right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we full to rise, are baffled to flght better,... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1890 - 514 pages
...Read before the Maine Historical Society, February So, 1890. BY HENRY S. BUBRAGE, DD BROWNING sings of One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. Such a man, in any sphere of life, will have a place among those who bring things to pass, and who... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1890 - 500 pages
...Bead before the Maine Historical Society, February to, 1890. BY HENRY S. BURRAGE, DD BROWNING sings of One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. Such a man, in any sphere of life, will have a place among those who • bring things to pass, and... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1890 - 504 pages
...before the Maine Historical Society, February 20, 1890. BY HENRY S. BURRAGE, DJ>. BROWNING sings of One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break. Such a man, in any sphere of life, will have a place among those who bring things to pass, and who... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - Social sciences - 1890 - 414 pages
...indeed, of this we have had. We have just lost one who struggled stoutly with this very problem — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break." But even he gave us rather " incidents in the development of a 1 Talleyrand's advice to one about to... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1890 - 234 pages
...and Shakespeare." His works will keep green the memory of One who never turned his back, but inarched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong could triumph. CJ BM. "A THING ENSKYED." T71DWAKD MACKENZIE, author, critic, and litterateur, sat down... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Poets, English - 1890 - 110 pages
...ideals to vanish, for one of his enthusiasms to lose its heat; to the last, as he so truly said, he " never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph." The subtlest of writers, he was the simplest of men, and he learned in serenity what he taught in song.... | |
 | Browning club, Syracuse, N.Y. - 1890 - 120 pages
...soul as to make it miss life's evei^y goal, no conjectural duty-doing at no matter whose expense : " Held we fall to rise, " are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake." Did he drivel ? " There is an evil wrought by want of thought " — " As well as want of heart." would... | |
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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. 
