 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 781854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robin Grey - 1901 - 358 Seiten
...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 ;...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.' Of the actual attitude towards... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 408 Seiten
...I am alone) Think by a gentle hand mine too is prest In kindly welcome to a calmer rest. FAREWELL. 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, — ANDREW LANG. ANDREW LANG, a British poet, critic and general writer,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1901 - 514 Seiten
...satisfied with himself and his achievements, as the following quatrain of his felicitously shows : " 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.» To understand Landor's work,... | |
 | John Elderkin, Chester Sanders Lord, Horatio Nelson Fraser, Charles Wilson Price, Lotos Club (New York, N.Y.) - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...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 ;...Nature I 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... | |
 | John Elderkin, Chester Sanders Lord, Horatio Nelson Fraser, Charles Wilson Price, Lotos Club (New York, N.Y.) - 1901 - 516 Seiten
...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 ;...Nature I 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... | |
 | 1901 - 638 Seiten
...alone) Think by a gentle hand mine too is prest In kindly welcome to a calmer rest. FAREWELL. I STBOVE 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,— ANDREW LANG. ANDREW LANQ, a British poet, critic and general writer,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 Seiten
...him; now heaven is overcast, And spring and summer both are past, And all things sweet. f76. Finis T 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. CHARLES LAMB |77. The... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 Seiten
...blossom on its breast, Nor knows how soon it will be borne away. Charles Tennyson-Turner ON HIMSELF 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... | |
 | Eduard Engel - 1902 - 516 Seiten
...character. He has drawn an excellent portrait of himself, in the lines On his seventy-fifth birthday : — I strove with none, for none was worth my strife,...Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art ! I warmed both hands l>efore the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. The manner in which Thomas Moore... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 Seiten
...within the wood : But who should hear them ? and whose laughs ? and why? ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY 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. THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777-1844 THE PARROT... | |
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