 While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious...  “The” Pleasures of Life - Page 110by Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 479 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Pater - 1982 - 304 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - 1983 - 340 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
 | Frank M. Turner - 1984 - 496 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any 43. Anthony Ward, Walter Pater: The Idea in Nature (London: Macgibbon and Kce, 1966), pp. 25-54. 44.... | |
 | Peter Raby - 1988 - 180 pages
...energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 pages
...it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations — seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any... | |
 | Brian Trehearne - 1989 - 392 pages
...contain all available meaning and beauty in life. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
 | Jonathan Freedman - 1990 - 360 pages
...situation"; to seek, instead, to profit from the very "bewildering and predatory imperatives" of the sensual world: While all melts under our feet, we may well...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
 | Judith Ryan - 1991 - 292 pages
...natural in his tentative turning towards Christianity: "While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment" (Renaissance, p. 152). By the principles enunciated in the Conclusion to the Renaissance volume, there... | |
 | Henri Dorra - 1994 - 420 pages
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations—seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers and curious odors, or work of the artist's... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1995 - 354 pages
...experience ? I quote from the text of the first edition : While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
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