| 1903 - 606 стор.
...line. Landor's famous epitaph upon himself remains one of the few excellent pieces in this kind : — ' I strove with none for none was worth my strife ; Nature I lov'd and, next to Nature, Art ; I warm'd both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 588 стор.
...from Byron to Sir Walter Scott and Southéy, writes thus of his own present position : — " I utrove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and next to nature, art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life ; It Pinks, and 1 am ready to depart4 Alexander Smith soon... | |
| 1895 - 722 стор.
...be forgiven if I see a kinship indeed with one, and that Landor. "I strove with none, for none were worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to nature, art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.1' The lines might have been written... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1891 - 602 стор.
...exquisite valedictory lines, the motto of his last book. "I strove with none, for none was worth the strife, Nature I loved, and next to Nature — Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart." " AH yes, we all eat and drink... | |
| 1865 - 618 стор.
...day Some flake of the dust is brushed away, That had settled over my heart. HAD Ill Swage £an&0r. " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I lov'd, and next to nature art ; I warm'd both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 стор.
...the poor old lass to bed, Simply because my fire is going out. George Caiman, tlie Younger. CLXXXII. I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to nature, art ; I warm'd both hands before the fire of life ; . It sinks, and I am ready to depart. CLXXXIII. ON ONE... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 628 стор.
...letter. On " the night you left me I wrote the following DYIN'G " SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER : " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I warm'd both hands against the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." In a previous section... | |
| 1869 - 668 стор.
...morning the following lines, afterwards printed in the fly-leaf of The Las\ Fruit of an Old Tree: — " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I lored, and, next to Nature, art; I warm'd both hands bctor« the fire of life ; It sinks, and 1 am... | |
| 1873 - 860 стор.
...Old Philosopher," — and who but Landor could have written the faultless and pathetic quatrain ? " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." Our author's prose never was more... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1874 - 192 стор.
...my griefs were true, And all my joys but dreamt. II. QUATRAINS AND COUPLETS. QUATRAINS. ON HIMSELF. I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife ;...I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ON LUCRETIA BORGIA'S HAIR. BORGIA,... | |
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