| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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),... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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