 | Education - 1914 - 592 pages
...Aesthetes at Oxford. He has been described as an artistic epicurean, holding the philosophy that one should give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. Pater was hardly a disciplinarian. He commended highly the bonfire which destroyed the statues of Cain... | |
 | Alice Bach - Religion - 1997 - 314 pages
...love of art for arts' sake has most, for art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but for the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.14 Having schooled the reader in the virtues of some and the vilification of other literary artists,... | |
 | Gail Rae - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 124 pages
...The Renaissance(l&73), a seminal work in the articulation of aesthetic theory, Walter Pater writes, "For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." Other major proponents of the aesthetic included John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. Affective fallacy - the... | |
 | Jerrold Levinson - Art - 1998 - 344 pages
...as an anguished accusation and not a proud proclamation. Or one may believe, with Walter Pater, that "art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake,"2 and yet want to turn from such a proposal, as from the seductive allure of the lotus land,... | |
 | William Frank Monroe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 260 pages
...— these are likely to yield the highest passion, a peculiarly aesthetic wisdom. "For art," he says, "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."20 This exquisite sensitivity of the imagination depends on its isolation from the "multiplied... | |
 | Leo Charney - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 204 pages
...immersion in the present tense of experience: "Art comes to you," he concluded the conclusion, "professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" (62). For Pater, we seize value from our lives by inhabiting as many sensual moments as we can. As... | |
 | John Dougill - Authors, English - 1998 - 416 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. The ideas achieved such notoriety that Pater dropped the conchtsion from the next edition of the book... | |
 | Carl Rapp - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 320 pages
...must be permitted to develop according to its own laws and interests, whether it comes, as Pater says, "proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sakes,"" or whether it comes, in Eliot's phrase, as "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a... | |
 | Inga Bryden - Art - 1998 - 424 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. 110 26 SEBASTIAN EVANS 'The Seven Fiddlers' Brother Fabian's Manuscript and Oilier ftteins, If5(ir>,... | |
 | Douglas Mao - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 321 pages
...Paterian impressionism is the resounding conclusion to The Renaissance, "[F]or art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" (Writings 62), the archetypal moment of Pound's innovation-driven modernism might be his 1912 claim... | |
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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 
