 | 1895 - 722 pagina’s
...philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | 1873 - 790 pagina’s
...philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual; excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pagina’s
...philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pagina’s
...— "The service of philosophy and of culture to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pagina’s
...teachers : The service of philosophy and of culture to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 pagina’s
...some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest j some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual...excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, "while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion,... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 360 pagina’s
...still to profit by the variety of moral distinctions. ' Each moment? says Mr. Pater for instance, ' some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest / some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 360 pagina’s
...still to profit by the variety of moral distinctions. ' Each moment,' says Mr. Pater for instance, ' some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills ar sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pagina’s
...explicitly bases his teaching on the teachings of modern science. " Each moment," says Mr. Pater, " some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1880 - 196 pagina’s
...profit by the variety ofcfcsjjiti^listinctions. 'Each moment,' says Mr. Pater, for instance, '-K^IBf""' grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is^^mcep'fliacn the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
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Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only. 
