 | Walter Pater - Arts, Renaissance - 1919 - 274 pages
...in the clear, fresh writings of Voltaire. Well ! we are all condamnes^ as Victor Hugo says : w^are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve — Us hommes sont tous condamnts a mart avec des sursis indtfinis: we have an interval, and then our... | |
 | Victor N. Paananen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 530 pages
...many an Oxford student could have repeated by heart. We all. he says, lie under sentence of death with indefinite reprieve: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend ihis interval in listlessness. some in high passions, the wisest in an and song. For our one chance... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - Business & Economics - 2000 - 268 pages
...litany of scarcity and self52. Hausman, Philosophy of Economics, 114. interest by acknowledging that "we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve." Now one of the worldly philosophers, in Robert Heilbroner's phrase, indeed perhaps the most sensuous... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 pages
...consciousness of its imminence is intensified, he exclaims, 'Well! we are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve [R, 238].' Condamnes, to be sure, but infinitely reborn". Carolyn Williams finds that Pater's "prose... | |
 | Thomas Lütkemeier - Aesthetics - 2001 - 318 pages
...consciousness of its imminence is intensified, he exclaims, 'Well! we are all condanrnes, as Victor Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve [R, 238].' Condamnes, to be sure, but infinitely reborn". Carolyn Williams finds that Pater's "prose... | |
 | Donald Eugene Hall - College teachers - 2002 - 136 pages
...exhortations (particularly in "Existentialism is a Humanism"), Pater still helps me answer that question: [W]e are all under sentence of death but with a sort...interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend that interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this... | |
 | Jessica R. Feldman - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 292 pages
...England one year after St. Elmo appeared in America: "Well! we are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve - les hommes sont tous condamnes a mart avec des sursis indefinis ... we have an interval, and then... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 818 pages
...made man,” a phrase from the Nicene Creed. 249 “Well! we are all condamnés, as Victor Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve—les hommes sont tous condamnés a mort avec des sursis indéfiriis: we have an interval,... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 2003 - 676 pages
...the conclusion of his 1873 The Renaissance, Pater recognized the absolutely demystified human span: "We are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve." And he observed that "[o]ur one chance lies in expanding that interval, into getting as many pulsations... | |
 | Suman Gupta, David Johnson - Literary Collections - 2005 - 338 pages
...all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says: les hommes sont tous condamnes a morte avec des sursis indefmis'. we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as... | |
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Hugo says: we are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve — les hommes sont tous condamnes a mart avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness,... 
