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" ... from the second edition of 1877, and finally restored in 1888 with the following explanation by Pater: "This brief 'Conclusion' was omitted in the second edition of this book, as I conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose... "
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry - Page 246
by Walter Pater - 1888 - 252 pages
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Culture and Restraint

Hugh Black - Aesthetics - 1901 - 362 pages
...second edition of his Renaissance the chapter in which he summed up the creed of culture, because he conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall — and with some reason, as the chapter, restored with some changes in subsequent editions, still...
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Walter Pater

Arthur Christopher Benson - Authors, English - 1906 - 248 pages
...This " Conclusion" was omitted in the second edition of the book. Pater says that he excluded it, " as I conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall." He adds that he made a few changes which brought it closer to his original meaning, and that he had...
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Shelburne Essays

Paul Elmer More - Criticism - 1910 - 284 pages
...Pater's Renaissance — how it was withdrawn from the second edition of that book because the author "conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall"; and how it was restored, with some slight changes, to the later editions where it now stands. And you...
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Shakespeares verwendung von gleichartigem und gegensätzlichem parallelismus ...

Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...mit der Bemerkung: This brief "Conclusion" was omittcd in the second edition of this book. «.>. / conceived it might possibly mislead some of those...into whose hands it might fall. On the whole, I have thouyht it best to reprint it here, with some slight changes which bring it closer to my original meaning....
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Bonner studien zur Englischen philologie, Issues 7-10

English language - 1913 - 586 pages
...den fatalen Schluß fortließ; in der dritten (1888) fügte er ihn wieder hinzu mit der Bemerkung: This brief "Conclusion" was omitted in the second edition of this book. as I conceived U might possibly mislead some of those young men intn whose hands U might fall. On the whole, I have...
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Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Richard Le Gallienne - Literary Collections - 1915 - 400 pages
...well-known withdrawal of the "Conclusion" to The Renaissance from its second edition, from a fear that "it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall," is but one of many examples of his solicitude; and surely such as have gone astray after such painstaking...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Part 2

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 372 pages
...the second edition of the Studies (1877) ; in the third edition (1888) he restored it, with the note: "This brief Conclusion was omitted in the second edition...changes which bring it closer to my original meaning." One of the changes, perhaps significant of some change in Pater's own attitude, is the introduction...
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The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the ...

Holbrook Jackson - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 410 pages
...originally issued in 1878, which led the author to omit the chapter from the second edition (1877). " I conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall," he wrote, when he reintroduced it with some slight modifications, bringing it closer to his original...
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A Dictionary of European Literature: Designed as a Companion to English Studies

Laurie Magnus - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 618 pages
...(from Conclusion to P.'e Renaissance, 1873; omitted from second and third edns., ' as I conceived that it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall ' — like Socrates, corrupting the young, — but restored by P., 1888 and onwards). It is obvious...
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Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes

Elsie Bonita Adams - Art and literature - 1971 - 232 pages
...hedonism. Not only did he suppress the conclusion to The Renaissance in the 1877 edition because he "conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall" (1:233) ; but in Marius the Epicurean he explains that, although this philosophy could result in "a...
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