| Cornelia A. H. Crosse - 1892 - 370 páginas
...his last book— '•I strove with none, for none was worth the 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." THE WEDDED POETS. WHEN Wordsworth heard of the marriage of Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, he... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 964 páginas
...-fifth birthday. ' ' I strove with none, for none was worth the 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." It is to the grave of lyandor that Swinburne came, " As one whose steps half linger, Half run before,... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1892 - 342 páginas
...strove with none — for none were worth my strife : Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art. I've warmed both hands before the fire of life : It sinks, and I am ready to depart." He said, in his incomparable way, " Phocion conquered with few soldiers, and he convinced with few... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1892 - 912 páginas
...strove with none, for none was worth the 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." It is to the grave of Landor that Swinburne came, " As one whose steps half linger, Half run before,... | |
| 1907 - 130 páginas
...sense of distinction : 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. Generally speaking there is a want of deep or fine experience in the literary production of the democracy... | |
| 1894 - 608 páginas
...WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. 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. - • •--'• , - — . '.¿ i ' *. OiY-OCIAVE, THANKT VERY breeze that blew waved and inflated and... | |
| John Nichol - 1893 - 264 páginas
...from her couch of snows (9) " But yonder comes the powerful King of day, Rejoicing in the East." (10) "I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart." 10. Criticize, and extend into Simile, Ruskin's description of a wave breaking against the rocks :... | |
| George Jacob Holyoake - 1893 - 324 páginas
...strove with none — for none were worth my strife : Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art. I've warmed both hands before the fire of life : It sinks, and I am ready to depart." He said, in his incomparable way, " Phocion conquered with few soldiers, and he convinced with few... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 páginas
...the spirit of man. ' 1 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.' Nevertheless, he was, as Emerson said, a man full of thoughts rather than a man of ideas. He was not... | |
| 1894 - 1116 páginas
...and that it is such as have in the fullest sense lived who are the most willing to part with life. I warmed both hands before the fire of life ; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. The explanation may possibly lie in the fact that it is an easier matter to leave a world whose resources... | |
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