The Works of Walter Pater, Том 1Macmillan, 1900 - 247 страници |
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Страница 236 - 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 point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy...
Страница viii - What is this song or picture, this engaging personality presented in life or in a book, to me? What effect does it really produce on me ? Does it give me pleasure ? and if so, what sort or degree of pleasure ? How is my nature modified by its presence, and under its influence ? T\\f.
Страница 233 - Conclusion" was omitted in the second edition of this book, as I conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall.
Страница 1 - Renaissance in the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...
Страница 124 - As often happens with works in which invention seems to reach its limit, there is an element in it given to, not invented by, the master. In that inestimable folio of drawings, once in the possession of Vasari, were certain designs by Verrocchio, faces of such impressive beauty that Leonardo in his boyhood copied them many times.
Страница 49 - For the essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality — no language they have spoken, nor oracle beside which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds, nothing about which they have ever been passionate, or expended time and zeal.
Страница 236 - The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the 31 WALTER PATER rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us, - for that moment only.
Страница 233 - To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Страница 121 - The Last Supper was finished in 1497; in 1498 the French entered Milan, and whether or not the Gascon bowmen used it as a mark for their arrows, the model of Francesco Sforza certainly did not survive. What, in that age, such work was capable of being — of what...