 | 1895 - 722 pages
...listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High passions give you this quickened sense of life, ecstasy, and sorrow oi love, political or religious enthusiasm or... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 780 pages
...high Musical Review. passions, the wisest in art and song ; for onr one chance is in expending that interval in getting as many pulsations as possible...enthusiasm, or the ' enthusiasm of humanity.' Only be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom... | |
 | Walter Pater - History - 1873 - 258 pages
...listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible...enthusiasm, or the ' enthusiasm of humanity.' Only, be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible...High passions give one this quickened sense of life, — eestasv and sorrow of love, politleal or religious enthusiasm, or the ' enthusiasm of humanity.'... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, 'is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, ' is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1879 - 780 pages
...listlessness ; some in high passions ; the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible...enthusiasm, or the " enthusiasm of humanity." Only be sure it is passion ; that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened multiplied consciousness.' So much... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chamv is in expanding that interval, in getting 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 beauty,... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible in the given time. High passions give one this quickened sense of life — ' Romeo is one of these, and, after indulging in a passion for an ideal love, he throws himself... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time." Here was the characteristic note of the book. Mr. Pater, indeed, was careful to explain that among... | |
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... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world', in art and song. 
