While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious... The Pleasures of Life Complete - Página 75por Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 332 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1898 - 424 páginas
...out beauty, — that in doing these things do we make life worth living, or, as Pater puts it, "When all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment; any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colors and curious odors, or work of the artist's... | |
| 1891 - 682 páginas
...moment, and just for the moment's sake. She would have rejoiced in those words which tell us that " while all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 808 páginas
...out the question anew. " While all melts under our feet," he had written in a well-known passage, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 812 páginas
...out the question anew. " While all melts under our feet," he had written in a well-known passage, " we may well catch at any exquisite passion or any...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange flowers, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
| Charles Marriott - 1901 - 480 páginas
...study of her was throwing away an opportunity for self-culture. He quoted a favourite author, — " While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment." " For a month at least," urged Hastings, as in echo ; " Daphne has had so little of your society."... | |
| Hugh Black - 1901 - 362 páginas
...and we have a tragically short time to do it in. " While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's... | |
| Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 páginas
...meantime it is pnly the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a 15 lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,... | |
| Walter Pater - 1901 - 360 páginas
...meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a 15 lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,... | |
| Ferris Greenslet - 1903 - 190 páginas
...this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy is success in life. . . . While all melts beneath our feet we may well catch at any exquisite passion,...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or the [115] work... | |
| Ralph Barton Perry - 1905 - 482 páginas
...energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life. . . . While all melts under our feet, we may well catch...lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colors, and curious odors, or work of the artist's... | |
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