...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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 warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.» To understand Landor's work, one must know something of the poet's...