 | 1865 - 620 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." Our author's prose never was more characteristic than in this book,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1874 - 192 pàgines
...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 warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ON LUCRETIA BORGIA'S HAIR. BORGIA, thou once wert almost too august... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1874 - 964 pàgines
...©eift unter fo üiel SSerfennung unb 9)îif^e'dncf auf redit erhielt unb nährte; bie lefcte enb= I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and after Nature, Art; I wanned both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1874 - 960 pàgines
...teelcbe feinen ©eift unter fo »tel unb SDÎt{^et^tcf аи^-еф! ertñelt unb nährte; bie lefte *) 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.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 pàgines
...an Old Philosopher," — and who but Landor could have written the faultless and pathetic quatrain? "I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;...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 characteristic than in this book,... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1875 - 544 pàgines
...Mands Tankegang, der faa Aar før sin Død forsynede sin sidste Bog med disse fire Linier som Motto : l 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 ara ready to depart.... | |
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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. 
