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. Life, by J. Forster - 456 psl.autoriai: Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 4 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| 1903 - 606 psl.
...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... | |
| 1854 - 800 psl.
...stand printed by themselves, in capital letters, on the first leaf, as on a memorial tablet " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to nature, art: I warmed both bauds before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." The verse is good... | |
| 1849 - 468 psl.
...grey, Aud the lamp's dazzling glare prodiim Sweet twilight's pass'd away. Ramtyaie, 22nd Ftb., 1849. DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER. I strove with none, for none was worth my «&* Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art: I warmed both hands before the fire of lil*> It sinks... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 588 psl.
...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...art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life ; It Pinks, and 1 am ready to depart4 Alexander Smith soon issues a third volume of his poetical effusions.... | |
| 1895 - 722 psl.
...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... | |
| 1865 - 618 psl.
...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... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 618 psl.
...birthday. Here they are not visible " on the surface of the paper, nor on any surface what" ever, but in the heart that is dictating this letter. On...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... | |
| John Forster - 1869 - 726 psl.
...heart that is dictating this letter. On the night you left me I wrote the following DYING SPEECH OF AS OLD PHILOSOPHER : " I strove with none, for none...strife ; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I wormed both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart." In a previous section... | |
| 1869 - 668 psl.
...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 psl.
...Old Philosopher," and who but Landor could have written the faultless and pathetic quatrain ? " 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." Our author's prose... | |
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