 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
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1911 - 780 pages
...sky-reflecting springs, and if it be true, in the words of his friend Walter Pater, that " to burn ever with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life," then indeed the life of William Sharp was a nobly joyous success. And to those who loved him it is... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1911 - 602 pages
...whether in admiration or in rebuke. He lived, as he wrote, at white-heat. If, as Mr. Pater says, " to burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy," be " success in life," then was Ruskin's life successful above common measure. But Ruskin lived not... | |
 | John McFarland Kennedy - 1912 - 366 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. . . . Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 340 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 p_ur failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1913 - 782 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." Bergson tells us that life is but a " reality that is making itself in a reality that is unmaking itself,"... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 334 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... | |
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...der berühmten Conclusion der Renaissance bei weitem der bekannteste und meist zitierte geworden ist: To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life (Renaissance, S. 236). Diese glückliche Prägung enthält den Geist der ganzen Renaissance, die auf... | |
 | 1913 - 586 pages
...der berühmten Conclusion der Renaissance bei weitem der bekannteste und meist zitierte geworden ist: To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life (Renaissance, S. 236). Diese glückliche Prägung enthält den Geist der ganzen Renaissance, die auf... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 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 gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life." Yet feeling alone is no warrant for the expression of feeling in the... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 514 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...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.1 This passage is the key to all of Pater's criticism. Any topic may be discussed from different... | |
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