Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. 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 can we pass most swiftly from... The Victorian Age in Prose - Página 228editado por - 1988 - 241 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| 1873 - 790 páginas
...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...stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the...is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 378 páginas
...pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to he seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass...is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 páginas
...variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses 1 How can we pass most swiftly from point to point,...is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 páginas
...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...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failurejs to form ' habits : for, after all, habit is relative... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 páginas
...vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. * Waller. energy ? To burn always with this liard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world; . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 páginas
...Pater, " is given to us of a variegated, aromatic, life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen by the finest senses? How can we pass most swiftly...success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world : . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1893 - 506 páginas
...the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest 1 Shakespeare. * Waller. energy ? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame,...success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world ; . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
| 1895 - 424 páginas
...Mr. Pater's later utterances. " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end." " To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." " Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us ... is, in this short... | |
| 1895 - 416 páginas
...wills, in all things should we do 't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept. CORIOliANUS ii. 3. O burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all, habit is relative... | |
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