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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, "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 604
1873
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...hommes sont tous condamnes b mart avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place 25 knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among " the children of this world," in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...hommes sont tous condamnes b mort avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place 25 knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among " the children of this world/' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1901 - 364 pages
...the idea is constant : " a counted number of pulses only," " this too short day of frost and sun," " we have an interval and then our place knows us no more," — the sense of the inevitable end gives a character that at times is as oppressive as the motionless...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater - 1910 - 268 pages
...— les hommes sont tous condamnh a mart awe des sursis indefinis : we have an interval, and then bur 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," in art and song. / For our one chance lies in expanding...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes

William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 pages
...a sort of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tons condamnes a mart avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world," in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding...
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English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: An Essay in Criticism

Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 448 pages
...condamnes, as Victor Hugo says : 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 in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into...
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Civilisation at the Cross Roads: Four Lectures Delivered Before Harvard ...

John Neville Figgis - 1912 - 326 pages
...of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tout condamnes a mart mais avec des sursis indefinis — we have an interval and then our place knows us no...in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among the children of this world, in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that...
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Bonner studien zur Englischen philologie, Issues 7-10

1913 - 586 pages
...Renaissance so zusammengefaßt hatte: we have an interval, and then our place knows us wo more. Sonw spend this interval in listlessness, some in high...passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval; in gctting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High...
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Shakespeares verwendung von gleichartigem und gegensätzlichem parallelismus ...

Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...an interval, and then our place knows us wo more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, somc i» high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval; in gctting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High...
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Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Richard Le Gallienne - 1915 - 400 pages
...a sort of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tons condamnes a mart avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world," in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding...
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