 | 1921 - 864 pagina’s
...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 - 768 pagina’s
...which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, " 'Tis better to have 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1866 - 702 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera. when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have 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 pagina’s
...the foolish do not know. />' No! no vain voice did on me ffll,Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.' 1849 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pagina’s
...appeared, edited by Mrs. dough.] 1 voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost ? "'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all." The tricolour — a trampled rag Lies, dirt and dust ; the lines I track By sentry boxes yellow-black,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pagina’s
...which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, "Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at alL' 40 Arthur Hugh Clang!;. CCXXX LINES SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE IN A STORM, PAINTED BY SIR... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pagina’s
...the foolish do not know. No I no vain voice did on me fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost : " - Arthur Hugh Cloiujh. 10-19. ELECT, ЛшатЫу of the, I saw, and lo I a countless throng, Т! Г... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 pagina’s
...yet shall spring in you. " This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.'" In the battle 'twixt Evil and Good, writes a bard of later date, who has seen what that earlier one... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1874 - 416 pagina’s
...which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.' 1849 ALTER AM PART EM. OR shall I say, Vain word, false thought, Since prudence hath her martyrs too,... | |
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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 have fought and lost, Than never to... 
