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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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British Marxist Criticism

Victor N. Paananen - 2000 - 530 pages
...could have repeated by heart. We all. he says, lie under sentence of death with indefinite reprieve: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend ihis interval in listlessness. some in high passions, the wisest in an and song. For our one chance...
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Chez Soi: The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T.S ...

Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 318 pages
...death but with an indefinite reprise - les hommes sont tons condamnes a mort am des sursis indifims: 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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The "beauty truths" of literature: Elemente einer Dichtungstheorie in Aldous ...

Gerhard Wagner - 2001 - 290 pages
...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...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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Chez Soi: The Aesthetic Self in Arthur Schopenhauer, Walter Pater and T.S ...

Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 318 pages
...death but with an indefinite reprise - les hommes sont tons condamnis a mort ai'ec des sursis indefimr. 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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The Academic Self: An Owner's Manual

Donald Eugene Hall - 2002 - 136 pages
...answer that question: [W]e 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. Some spend that interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this...
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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience

Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pages
...a sort of indefinite reprieve - les hommes sont tous condamnes a mart avec des sursis indefinis ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more" (Pater [1986], p. 153). In Edna's case, the reprieve comes in the form of marriage. Yet however high...
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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March

Frederic Tuten - 2005 - 164 pages
...a sort of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tous condamnds a mort avec des sursis Indefinis: We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval ln 78 listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,'...
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Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

John D. Rosenberg - 2005 - 304 pages
...'Conclusion,' Pater again draws on Scripture only to subvert it. We are all damned ('condamnes') , yet 'we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more.' But in that interval, we must grasp at experience and love 'art for its own sake.' In the Psalms our...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...a sort of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tous 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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Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde

Michael Matthew Kaylor - 2006 - 500 pages
...and professor: 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...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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