...moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual...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...

...puhes only is given to us of a variegated, 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...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...

...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...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are...

...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative...

...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative...

...or nature." "A counted number of pulses only," says Pater, " is given to us of a variegated aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world . . . while...

...or nature." "A counted number of pulses only," says Pater, " is given to us of a variegated aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen...this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form Tiabits; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world...

...Pater, " is given to us of a 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...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,...

...Pater, " is given to us of a 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...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,...

...or nature." "A counted number of pulses only," says Pater, %'is given to us of a variegated aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen...this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world...