 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1910 - 652 páginas
...right and Epictetus on his left, and said some years before his death : ' I warmed both hands against the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.' In a somewhat different way George Meredith, in ' A Reading of Earth,' though not blind to the darker... | |
 | 1876 - 844 páginas
...strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I w.irmcd both hands before the fire of Life ; It sinks ; and I am ready to depart. With the facsimile before his eyes, the word before, which has a sweet hint of alliteration became,... | |
 | 1881 - 704 páginas
...: — " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife f Mature 1 loved, and after Nature, Art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." ALPHA. " Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sell«." Byron's spirit-stirring... | |
 | 1881 - 842 páginas
...himself: — " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;] Nature I loved, and after Nature, Art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." ALPHA. " Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells." Byron's spirit-stirring... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 598 páginas
...AZEGLIO. I STROVE WITH NONE, FOR NONE WAS WORTH MY STRIPE ; 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. PKEFACE. INFERIOR in execution to those I have already set before the public will perhaps these Imaginary... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 páginas
...strove with none, for none was worth my striio ; Nature 1 loveii. and ne.vt to nature, art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart" Alexander Smith soon issues a third volume of his poetical effusions. Montgomery, the Quaker poet,... | |
 | 1904 - 926 páginas
...: — I strove with none, for none was 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. The fire of life, however, was still to glow for Landor for many years, and several more contributions... | |
 | 1895 - 722 páginas
...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 by Hafiz. I am indebted to Mr AJ Chotzner for pointing... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 páginas
...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. CLXXXVIL HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST. THESE springs were maidens once that loved: But lost to that they... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 618 páginas
...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 Landor's summer visits to his sister Elizabeth have been named. To her at Warwick... | |
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I strove with none, for none was 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. 
