How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. The Pleasures of Life - Página 102por Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 191 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1914 - 128 páginas
...system of abstraction which aimed always at the broad and general type ...» (Ibid. p. 66). »How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus. . ? » (Ibid. p. 236). »He is just a little pedantic, true always to his own express judgment ...»... | |
| John Ernest Crawford Flitch - 1914 - 330 páginas
...veil of the flesh. Every one of them seems to be living where Walter Pater would have us all live, " at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy." However dimly burned the flame of life, however darkly it was screened by habit and convention, Goya... | |
| William Thomas Young - 1914 - 264 páginas
...in the History of the Renaissance; at the close of the same book, he unfolded the ideal of being " present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in the purest energies," and of "art for its own sake." "For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give... | |
| William Thomas Young - 1914 - 264 páginas
...Studies in the History of the Renaissance; at the close of the same book, he unfolded the ideal of being 'present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in the purest energies,' and of ' art for its own sake.' 'For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - 1915 - 418 páginas
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that there is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . . While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution... | |
| Théophile Gautier - 1915 - 224 páginas
...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...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits; for, after all, habit... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin - 1917 - 300 páginas
...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...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits ; for, after all, habit... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 páginas
...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...gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 páginas
...How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass mcst swiftly from point to point, and be present always...gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit... | |
| |