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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 "
Joseph Fawcett, The Art of War: Its Relation to the Early Development of ... - Page 278
by Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 270 pages
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Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space

Scott Brewster - Ireland - 1999 - 212 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...moments as they pass and simply for those moments sake.' (O'Brien 1937: 12) This was the most radical and disturbing aspect of Pater for many of his contemporaries,...
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Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Vassiliki Kolocotroni - History - 1998 - 658 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. 9 AUGUST STRINDBERG (1849-1912) FROM PREFACE TO Miss JULIE 1888 Swedish playwright, novelist, painter...
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After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England

Elizabeth Prettejohn - Aesthetic movement (Art) - 1999 - 292 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.' 'Poems by William Morris', Westminster Review, ns 34 (October 1868) 312. Pater altered the phrasing...
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Victorian Prose: An Anthology

Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 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. i 3. Auguste Comte (i 798-1857), French founder of positivism (see George Henry LEWES); Georg WF Hegel...
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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts

Roger Shattuck - Education - 1999 - 856 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. Anthologies still carry these incendiary pages. Does anyone find them scandalous today? The last sentence...
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Nineteenth-century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

Chris White - History - 1999 - 396 pages
...love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing hut the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. AC Benson, from 'Early Writings', Walter Pater, 1906 We come to the 'Conclusion', a most elahorate...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 312 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. 5 Hugh MacDiarmid, Complete Poems, vol. i, ed. Michael Grieve and WR Aiken (Manchester: Carcanet, 1993),...
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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader

David Pierce - History - 2000 - 1380 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' A limiting statement, but there are those who, if they dared claim arrival at any kind of working personal...
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Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Frank Burch Brown - Religion - 2000 - 333 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. 36 Now if art on its own can indeed give life's moments the "highest quality," it would not be surprising...
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The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England

Talia Schaffer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...the signif1cance of a particular cloud or reed, Meynell is following Pater's advice that "art con1es to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."49 Ruskin's influence is also evident in her writings about Italian ruins and artifacts, particularly...
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