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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 "
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing - Page 55
edited by - 2006 - 817 pages
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 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...
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Joseph Fawcett, The Art of War: Its Relation to the Early Development of ...

Arthur Beatty - 1918 - 414 pages
...peculiar to the genius of modern days" in Swinburne's. While the closing words of Pater's Renaissance — "For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake," — were a contradiction of all that Ruskin regarded as of most consequence in his theory of beauty...
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University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature, Issues 1-3

1918 - 712 pages
...peculiar to the genius of modern days" in Swinburne's. While the closing words of Pater's Renaissance — "For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake," — were a contradiction of all that Ruskin regarded as of most consequence in his theory of beauty...
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Studies by Members of the Department of English, Volume 1

University of Wisconsin. Department of English - 1918 - 414 pages
...peculiar to the genius of modern days" in Swinburne's. While the closing words of Pater's Renaissance — "For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...they - pass, and simply for those moments' sake," — were a contradiction of all that Ruskin regarded as of most consequence in his theory of beauty...
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British Criticisms of American Writings, 1783-1815: A Contribution ..., Volume 2

William B. Cairns - 1918 - 526 pages
...Swinburne's. While the closing words of Pater's Renaissance — "For art comes to you proposing frankiy to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake," — were a contradiction of all that Ruskin regarded as of most consequence in his theory of beauty...
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Four Minute Essays, Volume 7

Frank Crane - 1919 - 168 pages
...are they that have it, for they shall be filled. "Art," says a great critic, "comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." TEN SUCCESS HUNCHES A VERY human letter lies before me. "I read your editorials daily," says the writer,...
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Progress and Science: Essays in Criticism

Robert Shafer - 1922 - 272 pages
...sure it is passion—that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." It was well enough, as an assertion or as kindly meant advice, thus to represent the sensations derivable...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater - 1922 - 272 pages
...sure it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. fFor art comes to you proposing frankly to givei nothing but the highest quality to your moments as...
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Englisches Lesebuch, Volume 1

Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...sure it is passion — that it 'does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...give nothing but the highest quality to your moments eo as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 2) Aus: LEONARDO DA VINCI. (Verf. 1869.) But his...
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On Strange Altars: A Book of Enthusiasms

Paul Jordan-Smith - 1924 - 304 pages
...sure it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." This attitude towards life begets a new spirit of humanism. It tends toward catholicity. It urges one...
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