 | 1895 - 722 pages
...dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. " We are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says : we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more.... | |
 | Walter Pater - History - 1873 - 258 pages
...dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways is, on this short day of frost... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 780 pages
...the author's theory of life. " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itseir, is the end. . . . Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and, in the brilliance of their gifts, some tragic dividing of forces in their way, is, on this short day of frost... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...dyes, strango flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts, some tragic dividing of forces on their ways — is, on this short day of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...dyes, strange flowers, and curious odors, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways is, on this short day of frost... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1878 - 378 pages
...dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the brilliance of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways is, on this short day of frost... | |
 | Walter Pater - Art, Renaissance - 1888 - 284 pages
...strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or , the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every ! moment some passionate...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into... | |
 | 1898 - 424 pages
...work of the artist's hand, or the face of one's friend. Not to discriminate every moment." he adds, "some passionate attitude in those about us and in the brilliancy of their gifts, some tragic parting of forces on their ways is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening." Between... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 424 pages
...end." " To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." " Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us ... is, in this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening." Compare such convictions with... | |
 | Israel Zangwill - English essays - 1896 - 410 pages
...was the highest quality you were to give to your moments as they passed ; to fail to do this was " on this short day of frost and sun to sleep before evening." (" The Renaissance.") "Marius the Epicurean" was not an Epicurean in the sense in which the doctrines... | |
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... at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the... 
