 | William Francis Barry - Literature, Modern - 1904 - 408 pages
...whole duty of man as an artist. For, says the last solemn sentence in that book on the Renaissance, " Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." All is impression, sensation, — " a certain refined voluptuousness they have in them," observes Pater... | |
 | Arthur Mahler, Carlos Blacker, William Albert Slater - Painting - 1905 - 340 pages
...thought that its object was to give pleasure only; but as Mr. Pater says, "Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." NOTES PAGE 27 (1) The very fine picture "St. John the Baptist" (No. 1274) was originally ascribed to... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - Authors, English - 1906 - 248 pages
...chance which is open to a man; and art, he says, gives most of these, "for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." The "Conclusion," then, is a presentment of the purest and highest Epicureanism, the Epicureanism that... | |
 | Walter Prichard Eaton - Theater - 1908 - 360 pages
...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 quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." He feared at first that the lofty Hedonism of these words might be misconstrued and work injury. His... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Authors, English - 1909 - 368 pages
...passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art conies to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 1868. PAN'S PIPES Robert Louis Stevenson The world in which we live has been variously said and sung... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1910 - 322 pages
...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 quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." That philosophy of the Oxonian Epicurus and its scandal in a very un-Epicurean land are familiar enough... | |
 | Walter Pater - Renaissance - 1912 - 274 pages
...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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 1868. THE END PrixttJfy R. Jk R. CUUIK, LIMITED, THE WORKS WALTER PATER In Ten Volumes. With decorated... | |
 | English language - 1913 - 586 pages
...political or religious enthusiasm, or the "enthusiasm of humanity" (Renaissance, S. 239) '). Sodann: For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for Ihosc moments' sake (ib.). 1) Der Wortlaut der ersten Auflage aus dem Jahre 1873 ist wieder hergestellt... | |
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...humanity" (Renaissance, S. 239) '). Sodann: For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing bnt the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for ihose moments' sake (ib.). Enger als in L'Envoi hat sich Wilde in den Vorlesungen an P ate r's Renaissance... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English literature - 1914 - 264 pages
...the greatest number of vital forces unite in the purest energies,' and of ' art for its own sake.' 'For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' This sophisticated and over-subtle sense of beauty found its ideals less in Greece than in Rome, as... | |
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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 
