 | 1921 - 864 pagine
...party, that they are destined to be crushed, is for them but an added motive to endure to the last. ' Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all. MacBride, who was shot in 1916, inscribed this couplet on his banner when, twenty years before, he... | |
 | 1854 - 706 pagine
...her nostrils is peace — that peace which ploded theories, in another score of years will place her PESCHIERA. WHAT voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera....Tricolor, a trampled rag. Lies, dirt and dust ; the linos I track, By sentry-boxi-s yellow-black, Lead up to no Italian tiag. I see the Croat soldier stand... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pagine
...right he stands ; By fortune which is in God's hands, And strength which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge...fought and lost Than never to have fought at all." THE ZAY-NIS OF YAN-KY. TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE OJ' TAY-KIN. THE eminent Chinese philosopher and •I... | |
 | 1854 - 704 pagine
...right he stands ; By fortune which is in God's hands, And strength which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, li 'Tis better to have fought and lost Than never to have fought at all." THE ZAY-NIS OF YAN-KY. TRANSLATED... | |
 | William Swinton - 1866 - 702 pagine
...the army attacked and been repulsed, General Meade would have been forgiven ; for in war it is often better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all. It will always remain a striking instance of the controlling influence exercised in this war by defensive... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pagine
...stands ; By fortune, which is in God's hands, 35 And strength, which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera. when thy bridge...fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.' 40 Arthur Hugh Clough. ccxxv1 LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE IN A STORM, PAINTED BY SIR... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pagine
...he stands ; By fortune, which is in God's hands, And strength, which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge...fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.' 1849 ALTER AM PARTEM. OR shall I say, Vain word, false thought, Since prudence hath her martyrs too,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pagine
...for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy rest. 40 ccxxix PESCIIIERA. What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when...have fought at all.' The tricolor — a trampled rag 5 Lies, dirt and dust; the lines I track By sentry boxes yellow-black, Lead up to no Italian flag.... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pagine
...he stands ; l!y fortune, which is in God's hands, And strength, which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge...fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all." ITE DOMUM SATUR/E, VEMT HESPERUS." skies have sunk, and hid the upper snow (Home, Rose, and home, Provence... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pagine
...he stands; By fortune, which is in God's hands, 35 And strength, which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge...fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.' 40 ccxxx Arthur Hugh Clougl1. LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE IN A STORM, PAINTED BY SIR... | |
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And though the stranger stand, 'tis true, By force and fortune's right he stands ; By fortune, which is in God's hands, And strength, which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to... 
