 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
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin - 1917 - 300 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive for us, — but 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 mcst... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 340 pages
...revised edition of ' Studies of the Renaissance,' published in 1888, had set forth the latest gospel : "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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...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 shall we pass most... | |
 | 1922 - 712 pages
...human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation 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 by the finest senses ? .... While all melts under our... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1922 - 410 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 shall we pass most... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1922 - 272 pages
...irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but "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... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1923 - 376 pages
...because the most animal, the most irrational, the most insane, form of Eastern ecstasy. It gave me an impression of witchcraft; one might have been in...the end. A counted number of pulses only is given us of a variegated dramatic life. To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy,... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to 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... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - 1924 - 254 pages
...excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to 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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