 | Education - 1916 - 714 pages
...years, and has furnished an inspiration to all of us to be exemplars and missionaries of the truth. 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,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...Consuelo. I am, Sir, your, obedient servant, JOHN H. INGRAM. —Pall Mall Gazette, December 26, 1889. 258. ONE who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, One evening, just before his death-illness, the poet was reading this from a proof to his daughter-in-law... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 726 pages
...from his lovers this side the ocean — less joyful than his own last published words, fit epitaph for "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,... | |
 | Bibliography - 1898 - 454 pages
...many a man who was beginning to think he saw nothing but ' Failure,' writ large, before him — " ' 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 ye that fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,... | |
 | Robert Browning - English poetry - 1894 - 328 pages
...with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being — who ? 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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
...writes, as it were, from his own tomb, his noble Apologia pro vita sua, and truly describes himself as — 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,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1894 - 340 pages
...with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being — who ? 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,... | |
 | 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...doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed tho' right was worsted wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep or wake."... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 890 pages
...recalling " 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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...Never doubted clouds would break, [ Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, , Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,... | |
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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. 
