...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...

...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 loved, and next to nature, art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life ; It Pinks, and 1 am ready to depart4 Alexander Smith soon...

...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 been written...

...exquisite valedictory lines, the motto of 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." " AH yes, we all eat and drink...

...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...

...the poor old lass to bed, Simply because my fire is going out. George Caiman, tlie 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 ; . It sinks, and I am ready to depart. CLXXXIII. ON ONE...

...letter. On " the night you left me I wrote the following DYIN'G " SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER : " I strove with none, for none was worth my strife ; Nature I 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...

...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...

...Old Philosopher," — and who but Landor could have written the faultless and pathetic quatrain ? " 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." Our author's prose never was more...

...my griefs were true, And all my joys but dreamt. II. QUATRAINS AND COUPLETS. QUATRAINS. ON HIMSELF. 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. ON LUCRETIA BORGIA'S HAIR. BORGIA,...