 | 1891 - 556 pages
...fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fall. Shakespeare. WORD, NO SUCH. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As/ail. Bulwer. FAILURE. CAUSES OF. What keeps persons down in the world, besides lack of capacity,... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...of fools," is the obvious origin of Bulwer-Lytton's famous lines in " Richelieu" (Act ii., Sc. 2) : In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail. The superior judgment of the multitude has once more been evidenced in the persistent misquotation,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...of fools," is the obvious origin of Bulwer-Lytton's famous lines in " Richelieu" (Act ii., Sc. 2) : In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail. The superior judgment of the multitude has once more been evidenced in the persistent misquotation,... | |
 | Frank Archer - 1892 - 246 pages
...endowed with ; and though according to that clever dramatist, with whose works you are familiar, — " In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As— Fail ! " no one knew better than the author of the lines, that not only are failures possible,... | |
 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1892 - 702 pages
...pocket. There's. my money, you say to yourself: now fire away: let's see what can be done. Fail ! " In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there's no such word as fail." Nor manhood nor womanhood need trouble itself much about failing. The... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...use no coin but gold and silver. Joubcrî. In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. Dut. Pr. erever you may b*. Saadi. THAT t 415 I THE That which is past is gone and irrevocable, as fall. Buhver Lytton, IN THE Ă !n the meanest hut there is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.... | |
 | 1893 - 346 pages
...grasp it, Think your guardian star rains fortune on you. FRAN90IS. If I fail ? RICH. Fail — fail ! In the lexicon of youth, Which fate reserves for a bright manhood, There is no such word as fail ! [Exit FRA^OIS.] I have wrought Great uses out of evil tools, and they, In the time to come... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1893 - 256 pages
...that packet, Francois, fortune shall rain on you." " If I fail " faltered Francois. " Fail — fail ? In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there's no such word as fail. Farewell, boy; never say ' fail' again." "I will not." " That's my young... | |
 | Alexander Begg - 1894 - 574 pages
...Nature in her most formidable aspect, and give one more proof of Richelieu's famous epigram : — " In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail!" The prairie country opposed no very serious obstacle to the work, yet those who performed... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Bovet. In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as " fail " ! —Bulwer Lytton. FAITH. It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first... | |
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In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As — -fail! 
