 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  The Academy - Page 1051873Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 pages
...Humanities of old religion,' cleansed from their dross, with the inculcation of revealed truths. ' The poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of Art for Art's 301 sake,' were not indeed the purpose aimed at by a self-respecting heathen, any more than by a disciple... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire for beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most ;...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." This is Mr Pater's gospel of the emotions. Shall we follow it or reject it ? Each must answer that... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. OX I' 0 11 1) : By T. Combe, MA, EB Gardner, E. I'ickard Hall, .ir.d J. II. Stacy, PEINTEH8 10 THE... | |
 | 1873 - 790 pages
...of t quickened, intensified consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beautv, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." With this wonderful moral we may well close our remarks upon Mr. Pater's curious bit of philosophy... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 pages
...Only be sure 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,...to you professing frankly to give nothing but the higbw quality to your moments as they pass, ail simply for those moments' sake." Was ever any thing... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' Such is his philosophy of life, and he adds, ' of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' Other things, such as Morality, Politics, and Religion, he would not consider for a moment. ' The theory,... | |
 | 1885 - 286 pages
...this wis- : dom, the poetic passion, the desire of biauty, ! the love of art for art's sake, has most. Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. » » * The poetry of William Morris is neither a mere reproduction of Greek or mediaeval life or poetry,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 576 pages
...Humanities of old religion,' cleansed from their dross, with the inculcation of revealed truths. ' The poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of Art for Art's sake,' sake,' were not indeed the purpose aimed at by a self-respecting heathen, any more than by a disciple... | |
 | Mrs. Russell Barrington - 1892 - 248 pages
...be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of...of art for art's sake, has most ; for art comes to yon professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply... | |
 | 1897 - 818 pages
...ends his essay with phrases which have long ago become the banal catchwords of the neo-Hedonists: " Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." These extracts, so well known that one feels almost afraid to quote them, will show those who have... | |
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