...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 seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...

...longer, but we can live better, more intensely. As one of Pater's best-known purple patches has it: "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...

...she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~ Mark Twain, 1835-1910 ~ Following the Equator, 1897 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,...is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest...

...Melville's thought. "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end" of life, Pater wrote: 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...

...himself as author as for his characters, when he published his study on the Renaissance: he wrote, "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?" (Renaissance 152). The significance of the problem to Pater...

...directly with Pater's celebration of the finest sensibility in the 'Conclusion' to The 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?' (p. 219)). The 'flashes of faith' sought in the poem are like...