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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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Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory

Nicholas Zurbrugg, Warren Burt - Art - 2000 - 280 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."' Alternatively, one thinks of Burroughs 's definition of immortality as a condition informed by "increased...
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British Marxist Criticism

Victor N. Paananen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 530 pages
...Mountain in the Sunlight: Studies in Conflict and Unitv (London: Lawrence and Wishart. l958). professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. These ideas were frowned upon by the Oxford authorities as dangerous hedonism, and Pater was caricatured,...
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The "beauty truths" of literature: Elemente einer Dichtungstheorie in Aldous ...

Gerhard Wagner - Literature - 2001 - 290 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...moments as they pass. and simply for those moments' II.2 HUXLEY UND DER ÄSTHETIZISMUS Der ästhetizistischen Bewegung haften weithin die wenig produktiven...
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Chez Soi: The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T.S ...

Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 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 your moments as they pass, and simply for those moment's sake. (R, 236; 238f) Pater puts all his heart into this almost parental appeal, which consists...
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Chez Soi: The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T.S ...

Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 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 your moments as they pass, and simply for those moment's sake. (R, 236; 238f) Pater puts all his heart into this almost parental appeal, which consists...
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Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Wendy Steiner - Art - 2002 - 332 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...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."48 The Futurists, deifying speed and the machine, could not be more emotionally distant from...
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The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique

Paul Maltby - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 196 pages
...art, in particular, placing it in the service of truth or knowledge. Art is to be valued because it "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" (qtd. in McGowan, "From Pater" 420). Such moments are conceived as isolated, atomistic, divorced from...
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Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...a complex dialogue with Pater's The Renaissance (1873), among other works. In Pater's famous words: "For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." And 'To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."36...
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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914

Matt Cook - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 248 pages
...concluded his book The Renaissance (1873) with what amounted to an aesthetic manifesto. 'Art', he wrote, 'comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.'5 Artists and writers no longer needed to defer to a pre-ordained natural or moral order in their...
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Haunted Texts: Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism in Honour of William E. Fredeman

William Evan Fredeman - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 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' ('Poems,' 312). Pre-Raphaelite poetry is thus characterized by its choice of genre ballads, songs,...
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