...design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This at least of flame-like our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from...moment to moment, of forces parting sooner or later on then- ways. Or if we begin with the inward whirl of thought and f eeling, the whirlpool is still more...

...World. Says Walter Pater, in the creed of his new Cyrenaicism: This at least of flamelike our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from...moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways. . . . Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer...

...design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This at least of flamelike our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from...moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways. Or if we begin with the inward whirl of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the...

...literature as composing a permanent and timeless order in relation to ordinary life as, in Pater's words, "the concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways." This is what Aristotle had in mind when he described poetry as being a higher and more philosophical...

...design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This at least of flame-like our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of forces parting 5 sooner or later on their ways. Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool...

...design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This at least of flame-like our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from...moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways. Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the...

...design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. This at least of flame-like our life has, that it is but the concurrence, renewed from...moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways.33 Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid,...

...combination of natural elements." His "Conclusion" opens by arguing that the external world is "flamelike," the "concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways." Any pattern which we perceive is "but an image of ours." At first sight, says Pater, "experience seems...

...regard all things, and all principles of things, as no more than "inconstant modes or fashions," as but the "concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their way." It is the limitation of the genetic approach to human experience that it must be content to transform...

...brightness of the Paterian flame in the "Conclusion" to The Renaissance is a function of transiency: "the concurrence, renewed from moment to moment, of forces parting sooner or later on their ways". Its power is that of appropriating for the inner mind the "sharp end of importunate reality" with which...