 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 to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6041873Full view - About this book
 | Gerhard Wagner - 2001 - 290 pages
...it is passion - that it does yield you this fruit of aquickened. multiplied consciousness. 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... | |
 | David Leavitt - 2001 - 264 pages
...of the family possessed the slightest receptivity to what Pater called (and Harold never forgot it) "the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake." Pratts were antiPaterian. Not for them Pater's "failure is forming habits." To them... | |
 | Paul Maltby - 2002 - 196 pages
...placing it in the service of truth or knowledge. Art is to be valued because it "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" (qtd. in McGowan, "From Pater" 420). Such moments are conceived as isolated, atomistic, divorced from... | |
 | Thomas V. Morris, Tom Morris - 2002 - 216 pages
...sustainable, satisfying success there is. PART 7 THE ART OF CAPACIOUS ENJOYMENT Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. Walter Pater (1839-1894) CHAPTER The Joy of the Journey CONDITION 7 OF THE 7 Cs: We need a Capacity... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 2002 - 332 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. 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... | |
 | William Evan Fredeman - 2003 - 322 pages
...of each individual moment. By focusing on every moment, we can experience 'a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion,...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' ('Poems,' 312). Pre-Raphaelite poetry is thus characterized by its choice of genre ballads, songs,... | |
 | Matt Cook - 2003 - 248 pages
...Renaissance (1873) with what amounted to an aesthetic manifesto. 'Art', he wrote, 'comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.'5 Artists and writers no longer needed to defer to a pre-ordained natural or moral order in their... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 2003 - 986 pages
...such statements as th closing words of The Renaissance - 'For art comes to you proposing frankly t give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simpl for those moments' sake' (Pater 1873 [1986: 153]) - make it easy to see wrr But it would be as... | |
 | Stephen Kern - 2009 - 448 pages
...passion, the desire for 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...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." Although some interpreted Pater's aestheticism as advocating the elimination of morality in art, he... | |
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