 | 1895 - 722 pages
...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. " We are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says : we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High passions... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
...see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. . . . " We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessnass, some in high Musical Review. passions, the wisest in art and song ; for onr one chance... | |
 | William Gresley - 1875 - 328 pages
...longer or shorter, which condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, ' is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | William Gresley - 1875 - 328 pages
...longer or shorter, which condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, 'is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...pleasurable sensations, each of a more or less peculiar and unique kind.' We have a short time to livo, ' and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this...passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chamv is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.'... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...only. A counted number of pulses is given to us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is in getting into this interval as many pulsations as possible. Some spend it in listlessness,... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...tope. ' We have an interval,' writes Mr. Pater, in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance, ' and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this...the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible in the given time. High passions... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 102 pages
...moment only. A counted number of pulses is given us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend it in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. Our one chance is in getting... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...condamne"s, as Victor Hugo says : ' ' Lcs hommes sont tous condamne's a mart avec des sursis inddfinis." We have an interval* and then our place knows us no...many pulsations as possible into the given time." Here was the characteristic note of the book. Mr. Pater, indeed, was careful to explain that among... | |
 | 1885 - 286 pages
...we are all condtiinnes, as Victor Hugo somewhere says: We have an interval and then we cease to be. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. Our one chance is in expanding that one interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the... | |
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... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world, 
