 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. 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...  Miscellanies, Political and Literary - Página 37por Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 páginas
...partly from France (see BV Fr. lit.), and consisted in a constantly renewed pleasure of sensation : ' not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,...number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated and dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 páginas
...eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills. or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion...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... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 páginas
...eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion...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... | |
 | 1922 - 590 páginas
...it were, all that slumbers in their fiery blood. "Not the fruit of experience," wrote Walter Pater, "but experience itself, is the end. A counted number...only is given to us of a variegated dramatic life. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." Alas,... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 páginas
...eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion...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... | |
 | Peter Raby - 1988 - 180 páginas
...in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or 17 insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly...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... | |
 | Jonathan Freedman - 1990 - 360 páginas
...that the ephemerality of experience demands that we cultivate the most intense of those sensations: "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,...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... | |
 | George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - 1992 - 284 páginas
..."reduced to a group of impressions," themselves "unstable, flickering, inconsistent," and that therefore a "counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life." B Although the origins of the statement are complex, it seems clear that it functioned as a veiled... | |
 | Henri Dorra - 1994 - 420 páginas
...that he loses at every moment. . . . The service of philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp...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... | |
 | Tony E. Jackson - 1994 - 236 páginas
...drown out the reflective faculty, those moments of what Pater sees as unmediated sensory reception: A counted number of pulses only is given to us of...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... | |
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