 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?  Penn Monthly - Pagina 425geredigeerd door - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 552 pagina’s
...much older principle oí carpe diem: 'Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life' (PR 210). In turn, this thought prompts a question: 'How may we see in them all that is to be seen... | |
 | Michael Dirda - 2006 - 204 pagina’s
...best-known purple patches has it: "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present... | |
 | Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - 2005 - 312 pagina’s
...Melville's thought. "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end" of life, Pater wrote: A counted number of pulses only is given to us of...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present... | |
 | Darby Lewes - 2006 - 270 pagina’s
...himself as author as for his characters, when he published his study on the Renaissance: he wrote, "A counted number of pulses only is given to us of...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?" (Renaissance 152). The significance of the problem to Pater... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...attractive to us, — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pagina’s
...1835-1910 ~ Following the Equator, 1897 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 2007 - 229 pagina’s
...directly with Pater's celebration of the finest sensibility in the 'Conclusion' to The Renaissance (a 'counted number of pulses only is given to us of...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?' (p. 219)). The 'flashes of faith' sought in the poem are like... | |
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