 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - 1897 - 278 pàgines
...WITH NONE." (WS LANDOR.) " I strove with none, for none was worthy 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." (CSCB) " Non contra indignos ingloria bella petebam ; Semper erant... | |
 | 1898 - 436 pàgines
...Boston Literary World. The Fire of Life. WALTER SAVAC.E LAMIOR'S four-lined gem of poetical philosophy, 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, has always made such strong appeal to us that a story which owes its... | |
 | Robert Wilbur Steele - 1898 - 192 pàgines
...For the rest, I should exactly express my feelings, if I might venture to use the words of Landor: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;...loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands against the fire of life : It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Let me close this response with some... | |
 | Elizabeth Lynn Linton - 1899 - 122 pàgines
...combined. And what an intellect ! I was staying with him when he wrote that exquisite little verse : — " 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." " There," he said,... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen - 1900 - 184 pàgines
...Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. 6. 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. 7. The sun descending in the west, 8. Even now, where Alpine solitudes... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 460 pàgines
...in the quatrain, which is rather the moralist's than the poet's form, — Martial's, not Horace's. " 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." This is perfect ; but it is perfect speech, not perfect song. When... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 460 pàgines
...in the quatrain, which is rather the moralist's than the poet's form, — Martial's, not Horace's. " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art ; I wanned both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart." This is perfect ; but... | |
 | Karl Wåhlin, Sven Rinman - 1900 - 802 pàgines
...LANDOR. AF FRIGGA CARLBERG. Med 4 bilder. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife, Naiure I loved, and, next to nature. Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. It 7 . S. Landar (på hans 75:te födelsedag). DET är en egendomlig... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pàgines
...quatrain of Landor, unparalleled in its profound and melancholy beauty, must be given here, — 18 " 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." The lines written in memory of Rose Aylmer must always linger in the... | |
 | Robin Grey - 1901 - 358 pàgines
...simple illustration, the well-known verse of Landor (which I am compelled to quote from memory):— ' 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.' Of the actual attitude towards life which Landor is here assuming,... | |
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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. 
