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" With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. "
Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays - Page 263
by Richard Le Gallienne - 1915 - 377 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 114

Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...before evening. With this sense of the splendour of onr experience and its awful brevity, gathering ail we are into one desperate effort to see and touch,...hardly have time to make theories about the things we sec and touch. What we have to do Is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new...
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Old and New, Volume 7

Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 780 pages
...splendor of our experience and of its awful brevity, (rathering all we are into one desperate eBort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. . . . " We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessnass,...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - English essays - 1901 - 360 pages
...dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all 25 we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - English essays - 1901 - 360 pages
...dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all 25 we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about...
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Culture and Restraint

Hugh Black - Aesthetics - 1901 - 362 pages
...knowledge, or systems of morality, all are signs of failure. There is a great deal to be taken out of life, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, and we have a tragically short time to do it in. " While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp...
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Selections from Walter Pater

Walter Pater - 1906 - 358 pages
...ways, is, on \ *•' \ this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before . •',• f evening. WTththis sense of the splendour of our , (' experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all 25 ,'we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater - Arts, Renaissance - 1910 - 268 pages
...jlvid-^ mg of fercesToh their ways," is, on this short day ^>f frosTancI sun*: to ^sleepjbefore evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience...touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories abouf~i^.TtKings we see and touch. What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes

William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Authors, English - 1909 - 368 pages
...frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time...to make theories about the things we see and touch. What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never...
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Leandro Ramon Garrido, His Life and Art

Jane Quigley - Painters, Spanish - 1913 - 294 pages
...of Oil Paintrrs, of which Garrido was a member. xtui LEANDRO RAMON GARRIDO CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY " With this sense of the splendour of our experience...make theories about the things we see and touch." — PATER IN this brief record of the life of Leandro Garrido the central point of interest is the...
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Conduct and Supernatural: Being the Norrisian Prize Essay for the Year 1913

Lionel Spencer Thornton - Christian ethics - 1915 - 352 pages
...(especially the Conclusion) : " Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end." " While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp...make theories about the things we see and touch." Again, quoting Victor Hugo's " We are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve,"...
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