 ... 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,  Penn Monthly - Pagina 425geredigeerd door - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Chris White - 1999 - 374 pagina’s
...the Epicurean. The only suhstantial alterations in the essay are as follows. Pater originally wrote: 'High passions give one this quickened sense of life,...of love, political or religious enthusiasm, or the 6enthusiasm of humanity.*' This sentence hecame: 'Great passions may give us this quickened sense of... | |
 | Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, Olga Taxidou - 1998 - 632 pagina’s
...passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world', in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - 2000 - 255 pagina’s
...passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time" (61). Pater captures this sense of seizing the time in the wonderful last sentence of his essay on... | |
 | Frank Burch Brown - 2000 - 336 pagina’s
...passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world," in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Steven Meyer - 2003 - 480 pagina’s
...would subsequently term the specious present—Pater sets the neuraesthetic: "For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time," and thereby experiencing a "quickened sense of life" (pp. 150-53). Stein is perhaps at her most Paterian... | |
 | Gerhard Wagner - 2001 - 265 pagina’s
...passions. the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world.' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval. in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life. ecstasy and sorrow of love. the various forms... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 306 pagina’s
...passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Neil Roberts - 2003 - 646 pagina’s
...to cram the limited 'interval' between birth and death full of experience: Tor our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time' (ibid.). We can detect here the germ of Joyce's notion of 'epiphany' and of Pound's early doctrine... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - 2001 - 306 pagina’s
...passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world,' in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Brad Bucknell - 2001 - 288 pagina’s
...time.18 "[O]ur only chance," says Pater, referring to the period given us between birth and death, "lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time."19 Pater's figure is commonplace, but it turns upon the ambiguity (or the fusion) in the word... | |
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