 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  A Study of Fairy Tales - Page 4by Laura Fry Kready - 1916 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...desire for 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 to your moments...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... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...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 to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." In 1874 appeared Green's " Short History of the English People," of the importance of which I shall... | |
 | Books - 1873 - 500 pages
...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 to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." JA SYMONDS. ART NOTES. The death of Gustave Ricard has excited universal regret in France. At Marseilles,... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...desire of beautv, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...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... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...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 to your moments...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
...the desire of biauty, ! the love of art for art's sake, has most. Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Russell Barrington - 1892 - 248 pages
...desire of beauty, the love 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 for those moments' sake. WA I .TKIl FATER. TN this way had passed the lives of the two -*- men who joined the Lovats and Lena.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 594 pages
...says the last solemn sentence in that book on the Renaissance, ' Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' All is impression, sensation, — ' a certain refined voluptuousness they have in them,' observes Pater... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1897 - 830 pages
...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 to your moments...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... | |
 | Literature - 1903 - 852 pages
...strives to ignore. For him it would seem art is religion, art which "comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for these moments' sake." Perhaps he, too, like Pico della Mirandola, had striven to reconcile the dreams... | |
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