 A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the...  History of English Literature - Pàgina 397per Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 477 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1895 - 722 pàgines
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ?" Mr Pater, in five short volumes of exquisite prose, has given us some results of his attempt to... | |
 | 1873 - 790 pàgines
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be feon in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite m their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pàgines
...dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world; meantime it is only... | |
 | 1902 - 550 pàgines
...life, the great aim should be to pass more swiftly from point to point, and if possible contrive to be present always at the focus where the greatest...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are... | |
 | 1876 - 606 pàgines
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pàgines
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pàgines
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses 1 How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pàgines
...aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world . . . while... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pàgines
...aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form Tiabits; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 pàgines
...variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point,...gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failurejs to form ' habits : for, after all, habit... | |
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