 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 552 Seiten
...25-25-6. 109.11-12. to teach man . . . but a moment: cf. Pater, 'Conclusion' (see note to 25.25-6): 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' (PR igo). 1 8. Gothic art: architecture, painting, and sculpture that thrived in central and western... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 308 Seiten
...reversible. We need only remember the rather risqué personification of art in Pater's conclusion, the way it "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake," as well as the skeptical despair behind this turn to momentary passions—"that thick wall of personality... | |
 | Suman Gupta, David Johnson - 2005 - 338 Seiten
...Hence his infamous declaration of 'the love of art for arts sake ... for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'. There is obviously no sense of God, or an afterlife in Pater's philosophy. Our 'one chance', of expanding... | |
 | Lee Upton - 2005 - 158 Seiten
...as a heightening of our responsiveness to the business of living: "for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."1' WH Auden is drawn to a defensive strategy in which the poet justifies a celebratory art: "Whatever... | |
 | Shashi Tharoor - 2005 - 300 Seiten
...exhilaration that ferments within. More than a century ago, Walter Pater wrote of art as "professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass." That may be all that reading offers; but it is no modest aspiration. I Inspirations 1 Growing Up with... | |
 | Frederic Tuten - 2005 - 164 Seiten
...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 you nothing but the highest quality... | |
 | Michael Matthew Kaylor - 2006 - 500 Seiten
...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. (Renaissance 1893, p. 190) 1 Higgins, 'Essaying', p. 77. 2 Downes, Portraits, p. 46. 3 About this footnote... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 Seiten
...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. THOMAS HARDY Too fragrant was Life's early bloom, Too tart the fruit it brought! Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 278 Seiten
...Oxford with Walter Pater, who was a sort of guru to the English aesthetes. "Art," according to Pater "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life," he claimed.... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 Seiten
...of rest from head to feet; lie still, dry dust, secure of charge." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (#382) 46 "Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing...the highest quality to your moments as they pass." -Walter Pater (#383) May 15th, 1999 "The world has treated none of us well or ill; it is just a witness... | |
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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 
