 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?  The Forum - Page 2431922Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number...only is given to us of a variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number...only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 378 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number...only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to he seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...Walter Pater, MA, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. 2 vols. tion — not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a varied dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest sense ? We... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 364 pages
...the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end," writes an apostle of the new renaissance. "A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 pages
...the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end," writes an apostle of the new renaissance. "A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly... | |
 | 1897 - 830 pages
...that no moment can return ; let it, then, be as exquisite as possible. " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given us of a variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest... | |
 | Stuart Dodgson Collingwood - 1898 - 494 pages
...Mr. Dodgson. Walter Pater, in his book on the Renaissance, says (I quote from rough notes only), " A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1900 - 276 pages
...the ericH A" counted number J t — h^A» 1-1..-,.^.. ...,., .. .... *• J'— v«i_T«j>i» n ..-- of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 364 pages
...irresistibly real and at^. tractive for us, — for that moment only.'( Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number...only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic, life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most... | |
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