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" Of this wisdom, the poetic 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 moments "
Queries: Devoted to Literature, Art, Science, Education - Page 67
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The Eagle, Volume 18

1895 - 722 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire for beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most ; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." This is Mr Pater's gospel of the emotions. Shall we follow it or reject it ? Each must answer that...
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. OX I' 0 11 1) : By T. Combe, MA, EB Gardner, E. I'ickard Hall, .ir.d J. II. Stacy, PEINTEH8 10 THE...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114

1873 - 790 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beautv, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." With this wonderful moral we may well close our remarks upon Mr. Pater's curious bit of philosophy...
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The Academy, Volume 4

1873 - 500 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." JA SYMONDS. ART NOTES. The death of Gustave Ricard has excited universal regret in France. At Marseilles,...
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Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 3

1879 - 690 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' Other things, such as Morality, Politics, and Religion, he would not consider for a moment. ' The theory,...
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Lena's Picture: A Story of Love, Volume 1

Mrs. Russell Barrington - 1892 - 248 pages
...poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most ; for art comes to yon professing frankly to give nothing but the highest...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. WA I .TKIl FATER. TN this way had passed the lives of the two -*- men who joined the Lovats and Lena....
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Part 1

1897 - 818 pages
...this wisdom, the poetic 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." These extracts, so well known that one feels almost afraid to quote them, will show those who have...
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The Living Age, Volume 239

1903 - 852 pages
...all almost as enemies, that he strives to ignore. For him it would seem art is religion, art which "comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but...quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for these moments' sake." Perhaps he, too, like Pico della Mirandola, had striven to reconcile the dreams...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly5 to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. (1868. From The Renaissance, 1873.) English critics at the beginning "of the present century had a...
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Heralds of Revolt: Studies in Modern Literature and Dogma

William Francis Barry - 1904 - 408 pages
...artist. For, says the last solemn sentence in that book on the Renaissance, " Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." All is impression, sensation, — " a certain refined voluptuousness they have in them," observes Pater...
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