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
| Kirk A. Denton - 1996 - 576 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... | |
| Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 páginas
...called it "my golden book." Here lies the Siren song of our era and the voice of an unrepentant Faust. 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 can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present... | |
| Inga Bryden - 1998 - 424 páginas
..."ist dephlegmatisiren. vivificircn." 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... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 1998 - 292 páginas
...rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us - for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience,...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... | |
| Charles A. Riley - 1998 - 380 páginas
...understandably, was like a match flung on gasoline for the generation that included the young Wilde and Yeats: 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... | |
| Douglas Mao - 1998 - 321 páginas
...(236). In his rapture before found objects, John adheres to Pater's call for discerning perception ("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?" [Writings 60]) with a literalness that Pater himself would have... | |
| Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 páginas
...dephlegmatisiren, vivißciren .l 2 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... | |
| Vassiliki Kolocotroni - 1998 - 658 páginas
...rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience,...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... | |
| Elizabeth Prettejohn - 1999 - 292 páginas
...conceptions of the aesthetic approach to life, as in the famous 'Conclusion' to Pater's Renaissance: '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?'4 Here 'seeing' is more than a casual expression; blending receptivity... | |
| Walter Pater - 1919 - 274 páginas
...that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,"ls the end. A counted numEer 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... | |
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