 | Patricia Rae - 2007 - 324 страници
...criticism.56 For Pater, "we are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve . . . we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more . . . our one chance lies expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the... | |
 | Gowan Dawson - 2007 - 18 страници
...all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says: les hommes sont tous condamnes a morte avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.54 While such sentiments, self-indulgent of course but also ruthlessly coldblooded in their terse... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 2007 - 229 страници
...of pleasure. Referring to our life as nothing but a moment, Pater warns us that our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2007 - 280 страници
...symbols.9 Yeats's talk of 'prolonging] the moment of contemplation' nods deliberately to Pater's fantasy of 'expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time'.10 In curbing 'the pressure of the will', the mind is able to grasp itself in symbolic forms... | |
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... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world, 
