...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of_guch 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 f5~pve nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they...

...multiplied consciousness." Well, the answer was quick on the tongue. "Of such wisdom," he finally decides, "the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love...proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest qualities to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." There is much in that...

...(or Cyrenaicism) of Pater's "Conclusion" to the volume on "The Renaissance". To think only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment;...

...(or Cyrenaicism) of Pater's "Conclusion" to the volume on "The Renaissance". To think only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" ; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment...

...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...

...sure it is passion, that it does yield you this f mit of a quickened, multiplied conscious« ness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you propos* ing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply...

...above all else; our highest wisdom is "the love of art for its own sake." "For art," Pater concludes, "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." This indeed is an impressionistic theory of life and art, and something very different from the romantic...

...which, in its vivid clearness, is like sensation ". The basic mood of the ethic is in the resolve " to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments, as they pass, and simply for the moment's sake ". Of the intent of such a moment Amiel has written, " Each bud flowers but once...

...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 *he highest quality...

...of Pater's appreciation is still active and distinguishes certain critics who hold that of a "pagan wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most." Others of near kin are characterized by the fire of Rousseau to revolt against...