 How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6041873Full view - About this book
 | Stuart Dodgson Collingwood - 1898 - 494 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." Here we have the truer philosophy, here we have the secret of Lewis Carroll's life. He never wasted... | |
 | John Lubbock - 1899 - 640 pages
...always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To bum always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain...success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world; . . . while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
 | James Huneker - 1899 - 340 pages
...Pater declares is the only true life. "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame," he writes " to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits." Certainly Chopin and Poe fulfilled in their short existences these conditions. They burned ever with... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1900 - 276 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard,...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits : for, after all, habit is relative... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 pages
...point to point and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard,...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." John Addington Symonds is another writer who introduces us to this world of the " variegated, dramatic... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1901 - 362 pages
...possible contrive to " be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." The stereotyped, the fixed, the formation of habits, settled theories of knowledge, or systems of morality,... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite ins their purest energy? To burn always with this hard,...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite ins their purest energy? '( To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to I maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense ' it might even be said that our failure is... | |
 | 1902 - 552 pages
...point to point and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard...flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." Contrast with this "The Grammarian's Funeral." "What '3 time ? Leave Now for dogs and apes ! Man has... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1904 - 324 pages
...When we read " Love and the Soul Hunters " we seem to see this philosophy adapted to novel writing. "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to...ecstasy is success in life. Failure is to form habits." Yes, that is Mrs. Craigie's ideal in this novel. She, too, desires to burn always with a hard, gem-like... | |
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