 Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us, — for that moment only.  The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures - Էջ 68Charles Edward Montague - 1924 - 224 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1895 - 722 էջ
...religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | 1897 - 656 էջ
...filled with sensation. Remember that no moment can return ; let it, then, be as exquisite as possible. " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself...the end. A counted number of pulses only is given us of a variegated dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest... | |
 | 1873 - 790 էջ
...religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual; excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 էջ
...philosophy and of culture to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 էջ
...eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion,...intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us — for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 378 էջ
...philosophy and of culture to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager observation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement is irresistibly... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame - 1878 - 388 էջ
...some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest j some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us." And thus, "while all melts under our feet," he goes on, " we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 360 էջ
...still to profit by the variety of moral distinctions. ' Each moment? says Mr. Pater for instance, ' some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest / some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 360 էջ
...still to profit by the variety of moral distinctions. ' Each moment,' says Mr. Pater for instance, ' some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills ar sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 էջ
...explicitly bases his teaching on the teachings of modern science. " Each moment," says Mr. Pater, " some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion, or insight, or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly... | |
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