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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. No, at noonday in the bustle of... "
British Poems, from "Canterbury Tales" to "Recessional" - Page 470
1912 - 537 pages
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Poet Lore, Volume 5

Maurice Maeterlinck - Drama - 1893 - 670 pages
...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,...
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The Expository Times, Volume 4

James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1893 - 590 pages
...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...
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The Message of Quakerism to the Present Day

Evelyn M. Noble - Society of Friends - 1893 - 120 pages
...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...
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The English Poets: Appendix to V.4: Browning, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 178 pages
...quoth I ' I end with — Love is ail and Death is nought !' quoth She. (1872) EPILOGUE то ASOLANDO. At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,...cry ' Speed,— fight on, fare ever There as here!' (1889.) MATTHEW ARNOLD. [ELDEST son of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby; born Dec. 24, 1822, at Laleham, near Staines...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...

Robert Browning - Poetry - 1894 - 294 pages
...yonder, worlds away, Where the strange and new have birth, And Power comes full in play. EPILOGUE. Ax the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time, When...cry " Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here ! " BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES TO THE POEMS ABIB (An Epistle &v. : Men and Women, vol. iv. p....
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The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 860 pages
...to do With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless did 1 drivel — Being — who? One who never turned his...cry ' Speed,— fight on, fare ever There as here I' MATTHEW ARNOLD. [ELDEST son of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby ; bora Dec. 24, 1822, at Laleham, near Staines...
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Pocket Volume of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - English poetry - 1894 - 328 pages
...with the mawkish, the unmanly ? Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel — Being— who? Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would...cry " Speed, — fight on, fare ever There as here ! " THE END. ' ' ...
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The English Poets, Volume 4

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, arc baffled to fight belter, Sleep to wake. No, at noonday in the bustle of man's...thrive!' cry 'Speed, fight on, fare ever There as here!' (1889.l MATTHEW ARNOLD. [ELDEST son of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby ; born Dec. 24, 1822, at Laleham, near...
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Deeper Meanings

Frederic Allen Hinckley - Meditation - 1894 - 108 pages
...fitting epitaph which Browning unconsciously wrote for himself, when we pass on, may fit us, too, — " One who never turned his back, but marched breast...rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake." Dear friends, are we marching breast forward, do we believe in the sunshine behind every cloud, have...
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A Service in Memory of the Reverend Augustus Woodbury, D.D.: Held in the ...

Westminster Congregational Society (Providence, R.I.) - Congregational churches - 1895 - 68 pages
...better speak to you, if he were here, than to say these words Browning wrote just before he died : " At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,...cry "Speed," " fight on," "fare ever" There as here ! " ANTHEM Foote "Still, still with thee, when purple morning breaketh." CONGREGATIONAL HYMN Onward,...
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