 | 1895 - 722 pages
...short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. " We are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says : we have an interval, and then our place knows us no...the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High passions... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1873 - 780 pages
...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, some in high Musical Review. passions, the wisest in art and song ; for onr one chance... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...pleasurable sensations, each of a more or less peculiar and unique kind.' We have a short time to livo, ' and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this...passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chamv is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.'... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...only. A counted number of pulses is given to us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is in getting into this interval as many pulsations as possible. Some spend it in listlessness,... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...tope. ' We have an interval,' writes Mr. Pater, in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance, ' and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this...the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expending that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible in the given time. High passions... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Natural theology - 1883 - 102 pages
...moment only. A counted number of pulses is given us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend it in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. Our one chance is in getting... | |
 | 1885 - 286 pages
...we are all condtiinnes, as Victor Hugo somewhere says: We have an interval and then we cease to be. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. Our one chance is in expanding that one interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Good and evil - 1885 - 352 pages
...only. A counted number of pulses is given to us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is in getting into this interval as many pulsations as possible. Some spend it in listlessness,... | |
 | Walter Pater - Art, Renaissance - 1888 - 284 pages
...death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve —les hommes sont tous condamnSs d mort avec des sursis indtfinis: we have an interval, and then our place...in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among " the children of this world," in art and I song. For our one chance lies in expanding... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Christianity - 1893 - 214 pages
...moment only. A counted number of pulses is given us of a variegated life. We are all condemned to die. We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is in getting into this interval as many pulsations as possible." Pleasure is always... | |
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... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among 'the children of this world, 
