 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  Lena's Picture: A Story of Love - Page 103by Mrs. Russell Barrington - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...poetic passion, the 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...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 - History - 1873 - 258 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...poetic passion, the 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...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... | |
 | Books - 1873 - 500 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...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...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
...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 but the highest...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,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1897 - 818 pages
...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...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
...enemies, that he 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... | |
 | Walter Pater - English essays - 1901 - 360 pages
...desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly5 to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. (1868. From The Renaissance, 1873.) English critics at the beginning "of the present century had a... | |
 | William Francis Barry - Literature, Modern - 1904 - 408 pages
...artist. For, 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." All is impression, sensation, — " a certain refined voluptuousness they have in them," observes Pater... | |
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