 In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike.  The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry - Page 250by Walter Pater - 1888 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...; meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well...passion, or any contribution to knowledge, that seems, by u lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes,... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 576 pages
...perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...ecstasy, is success in life. . Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that...catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to our knowledge that seems, by a lifted horizon, to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - Ethics - 1880 - 196 pages
...insight or intellectual excitement, is irresistibly real and attractive for us.' And thus, he adds, 'while all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribitlion to knowledge, that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit fr<i« for a moment, or... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...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 is relative...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. WALTER PATER. WHO makes the last a pattern for next year Turns no new leaf, but still the same thing... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 520 pages
...fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Youth is not habit-bound, and ' our failure is to form habits; for after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world." So he draws Marius, whose young years accumulate experiences but pass no judgments, and the Child in... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 644 pages
...fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Youth is not habit-bound, and "our failure is to form habits; for after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world." So he draws Marius, whose young years accumulate experiences but pass no judgments, and the Child in... | |
 | Walter Pater - English essays - 1901 - 360 pages
...form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereo-10 typed world, and meantime it is pnly the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons,...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,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Romanticism - 1913 - 350 pages
...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 is relative...alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to... | |
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