 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.  Papers - Page 246de Browning Society (London, England) - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Watson - 1884 - 120 pages
...riches " in such " a little room " ; yet, packed as are these treasures, they are not crushed. — " f strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and next to nature, art. I warnfd both hands before the fire of life : It sinks ; and I am ready to depart" This poem is a condensed... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1884 - 396 pages
...as his own Epitaph. " I strove with none, for none were 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." From Texas, America. " Here lies my poor wife, A sad slattern and... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 280 pages
...Both epigram and epitaph may be serious or mocking. Serious is Landor's beautiful 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." Mocking is Rochester's combined epigram and (quasi) epitaph on Charles... | |
 | 1902 - 524 pages
...light, which marks him as the soberest of triflers. as the lines he wrote in retrospect on his life : I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ;...art ; I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; From the almost priest-like solemnity and exquisite fastidiousness of Landor, it is a long way to... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 pages
...this direction is the epigram ' On Himself ' ; it is very characteristic : — I strove with noue, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warni'd both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 5. Arthur Hugh Clongh,... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - 1887 - 270 pages
...Some years before, he wrote on his seventy-fifth birthday the following more famous stanza : — " 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." Chateaubriand, when dying, at the age of eighty, during the lamentable... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1887 - 566 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 976 pages
...no more true of Holden than it was of the author, the poem, cited by him, seemed doubly impressive. "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." Mr. Hardy's last chapter on religion is frank and sincere. Yet it... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 pages
...successful efforts in this direction is the epigram ' On Himself ' ; it is very characteristic : — 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. College, Oxford, wrote... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 pages
...the poor old lass to bed, Simply because my fire is going out. George Caiman, the 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 ; Jt sinks, and I am ready tq depart. CLXXXIII. ON ONE IN... | |
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