...multiplied consciousness." Well, the answer was quick on the tongue. "Of such wisdom," he finally decides, "the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest qualities...

...humanity. Only be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion,...the highest quality to your moments as they pass and that simply for those moments' sake.' We shall find this theory of life again in 'Marius,' the younger...

...(or Cyrenaicism) of Pater's "Conclusion" to the volume on "The Renaissance". To think only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" ; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment...

...is passion, that it does yield you this f mit of a quickened, multiplied conscious« ness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you propos* ing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality...

...of us. Only be sure it is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion,...comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but *he highest quality to your moments as they pass, »/>d simply for those moments' sake. WALTER PATER:...

...of Pater's appreciation is still active and distinguishes certain critics who hold that of a "pagan wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most." Others of near kin are characterized by the fire of Rousseau to revolt against the demands which the...

...which, in its vivid clearness, is like sensation ". The basic mood of the ethic is in the resolve " to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments, as they pass, and simply for the moment's sake ". Of the intent of such a moment Amiel has written, " Each bud flowers but once...

...Aesthetes at Oxford. He has been described as an artistic epicurean, holding the philosophy that one should give nothing but the highest quality to your moments...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. Pater was hardly a disciplinarian. He commended highly the bonfire which destroyed the statues of Cain...

...Pater at this date, I venture here to quote these over-quoted words: 'For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to...moments as they pass and simply for those moments sake.' (O'Brien 1937: 12) This was the most radical and disturbing aspect of Pater for many of his contemporaries,...

...love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing hut the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. AC Benson, from 'Early Writings', Walter Pater, 1906 We come to the 'Conclusion', a most elahorate...