 A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the...  The Quarterly Review - Stran 212uredili: - 1905Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1895 - 722 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ?" Mr Pater, in five short volumes of exquisite prose, has given us some results of his attempt to... | |
 | 1873 - 790 strani
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite m their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits — for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world; meantime it is only the roughness... | |
 | 1902 - 550 strani
...should be to pass more swiftly from point to point, and if possible contrive to be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are... | |
 | 1876 - 606 strani
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 378 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world . . . while... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite...this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form Tiabits; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. 2 Waller. energy ? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 strani
...the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. * Waller. energy ? To burn always with this liard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy,... | |
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