 | Northrop Frye - 2000 - 476 pages
...Pater's Renaissance: 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... | |
 | Peter L. Shillingsburg - 2006 - 190 pages
...to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. — we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more ... our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the... | |
 | Patricia Rae - 2007 - 324 pages
...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... | |
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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, 
