 | 1903 - 852 pages
...that he strives to ignore. For him it would seem art is religion, art which "comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest 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... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 364 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. 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 5 to give nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. 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 frankly5 to give nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 408 pages
...whole duty of man as an artist. For, says the last solemn sentence in that book on the Renaissance, " Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." All is impression, sensation, — " a certain refined voluptuousness they have in them," observes Pater... | |
 | Arthur Mahler, Carlos Blacker, William Albert Slater - 1905 - 340 pages
...thought that its object was to give pleasure only; but as Mr. Pater says, "Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." NOTES PAGE 27 (1) The very fine picture "St. John the Baptist" (No. 1274) was originally ascribed to... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1906 - 248 pages
...chance which is open to a man; and art, he says, gives most of these, "for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." The "Conclusion," then, is a presentment of the purest and highest Epicureanism, the Epicureanism that... | |
 | Walter Prichard Eaton - 1908 - 360 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. 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... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pages
...passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art conies to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 1868. PAN'S PIPES Robert Louis Stevenson The world in which we live has been variously said and sung... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1910 - 322 pages
...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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." That philosophy of the Oxonian Epicurus and its scandal in a very un-Epicurean land are familiar enough... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1912 - 274 pages
...it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. 238 Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 1868. THE END PrixttJfy R. Jk R. CUUIK, LIMITED, THE WORKS WALTER PATER In Ten Volumes. With decorated... | |
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Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments 
