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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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Educational Foundations: A Text Book for the Professional Teacher, Volume 26

1914 - 592 pages
...Aesthetes at Oxford. He has been described as an artistic epicurean, holding the philosophy that one should give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. Pater was hardly a disciplinarian. He commended highly the bonfire which destroyed the statues of Cain...
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Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space

Scott Brewster - 1999 - 212 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...moments as they pass and simply for those moments sake.' (O'Brien 1937: 12) This was the most radical and disturbing aspect of Pater for many of his contemporaries,...
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Nineteenth-century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

Chris White - 1999 - 396 pages
...of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of heauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing hut the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. AC Benson,...
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After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England

Elizabeth Prettejohn - 1999 - 292 pages
...1867) 100. 17 See Introduction, pp. 3-4. 18 In its original version the final sentence read: '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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Victorian Prose: An Anthology

Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...it 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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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts

Roger Shattuck - 1999 - 856 pages
...burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . . 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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Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Frank Burch Brown - 2000 - 333 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. 36 Now if art on its own can indeed give life's moments the "highest quality," it would not be surprising...
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The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

Sue Roe, Susan Sellers - 2000 - 312 pages
...forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which come naturally to many of us ... Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. 5 Hugh MacDiarmid, Complete Poems, vol. i, ed. Michael Grieve and WR Aiken (Manchester: Carcanet, 1993),...
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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader

David Pierce - 2000 - 1380 pages
...positively dangerous to quote Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.' A limiting statement, but there are those who, if they dared claim arrival at any kind of working personal...
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The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England

Talia Schaffer - 2000 - 324 pages
...the signif1cance of a particular cloud or reed, Meynell is following Pater's advice that "art con1es to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."49 Ruskin's influence is also evident in her writings about Italian ruins and artifacts, particularly...
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