... and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on... The Eagle - Page 1461895Full view - About this book
| Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts, some tragic dividing of forces on...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of onr experience and its awful brevity, gathering ail we are into... | |
| Walter Pater - Arts, Renaissance - 1873 - 258 pages
...Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 780 pages
...those about us, and, in the brilliance of their gifts, some tragic dividing of forces in their way, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendor of our experience and of its awful brevity, (rathering all we are into... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."* But we must return to the Temple. We penetrated then, as I have said, into all its recesses, and did... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1878 - 378 pages
...Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.* But we must return to the Temple. We penetrated then, as I have said, into all its recesses, and did... | |
| Walter Pater - Art, Renaissance - 1888 - 284 pages
...to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands,...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into... | |
| 1898 - 424 pages
..."some passionate attitude in those about us and in the brilliancy of their gifts, some tragic parting of forces on their ways is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening." Between the Continental and the English writers of this school, however, one notable difference is... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 520 pages
...though they were not; yet absorbing the fine essence of each experience because it is transitory. " Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening." Of Pater's style much has been said in praise and detraction. It expresses his hunger for perfection... | |
| Israel Zangwill - English essays - 1896 - 410 pages
...was the highest quality you were to give to your moments as they passed ; to fail to do this was " on this short day of frost and sun to sleep before evening." (" The Renaissance.") "Marius the Epicurean" was not an Epicurean in the sense in which the doctrines... | |
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