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 shall we pass most swiftly from... The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures - Seite 68von Charles Edward Montague - 1924 - 224 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1895 - 722 Seiten
...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 point to point, and be present...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 Seiten
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be feon in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite m their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 Seiten
...dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure... | |
| 1902 - 550 Seiten
...life, the great aim 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 in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5).... | |
| sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 Seiten
...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, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . Failure... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 Seiten
...aromatic 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 point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? " To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in... | |
| Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 Seiten
...some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us, —for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience,...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 Seiten
...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 from point to point, and be present...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 Seiten
...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 from point to point, and be present...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,... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 Seiten
...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 from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure... | |
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