 | 1914 - 592 pages
...Aesthetes at Oxford. He has been described as an artistic epicurean, holding the philosophy that one should give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. Pater was hardly a disciplinarian. He commended highly the bonfire which destroyed the statues of Cain... | |
 | Scott Brewster - 1999 - 212 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...moments as they pass and simply for those moments sake.' (O'Brien 1937: 12) This was the most radical and disturbing aspect of Pater for many of his contemporaries,... | |
 | Chris White - 1999 - 396 pages
...of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of heauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing hut the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. AC Benson,... | |
 | Elizabeth Prettejohn - 1999 - 292 pages
...1867) 100. 17 See Introduction, pp. 3-4. 18 In its original version the final sentence read: 'Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - 1999 - 856 pages
...burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . . Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most: for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | Frank Burch Brown - 2000 - 333 pages
...sure it is passion—that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 36 Now if art on its own can indeed give life's moments the "highest quality," it would not be surprising... | |
 | Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - 2000 - 312 pages
...forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturally to many of us ... Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 5 Hugh MacDiarmid, Complete Poems, vol. i, ed. Michael Grieve and WR Aiken (Manchester: Carcanet, 1993),... | |
 | David Pierce - 2000 - 1380 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' A limiting statement, but there are those who, if they dared claim arrival at any kind of working personal... | |
 | Talia Schaffer - 2000 - 324 pages
...the signif1cance of a particular cloud or reed, Meynell is following Pater's advice that "art con1es to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."49 Ruskin's influence is also evident in her writings about Italian ruins and artifacts, particularly... | |
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Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments 
