...... is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that...individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world. Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that...

...loosed into a group of impressions — colour, odour, texture — in the mind of the observer . . . Every one of those impressions is the impression of...individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world. The speaker here is neither Marcel nor Proust. It is Walter...

...that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced," and every impression "is the impression of the individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world." For Matthew Arnold modern life is a "strange disease"...

...impressions is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that...individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world" (Renaissance 187-88). Works Cited Arnold, Matthew. Complete...

...impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that...impressions is the impression of the individual in his own isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world. (Ren., 187-8) The...

...of impressions, is ringed round . . . by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without" (Ren, 235). He understands that his mind is "a solitary prisoner [dreaming] its own dream of a world"...

...outside "the thick wall of personality." His vision here is radically solipsistic: "Every one of [our] impressions is the impression of the individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world" (1: 236). With typical paradoxical brilliance, Pater's...

...impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that...individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world. Analysis goes a step further still, and assures us that...

...solitary, "ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without" (187). Within that wall we know only our own "impressions — colour, odour, texture"; these for all...

...little earlier than Nietzsche, Pater observed that "every one of those impressions [of experience] is the impression of the individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner in its own dream of a world" (Pater 1910, 235). These remarks were first widely read...