 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, 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 to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness...  Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 60by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Walter Pater - 1980 - 531 pages
...this hard, gem-like flame, 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...$ any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1982 - 304 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, 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...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - 1983 - 340 pages
...this hard, gemlike flame, 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...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
 | Frank M. Turner - 1984 - 496 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...makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any 43. Anthony Ward, Walter Pater: The Idea in... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 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 makes any two things, persons, situations — seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any... | |
 | John Dos Passos - 1990 - 236 pages
...ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: ... it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike" (Pater, p. 219). 60.15 Watteau. Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), French painter. Pater describes Watteau's... | |
 | Brenda Wineapple - 1992 - 404 pages
...gemlike flame," he exhorted, "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...that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike."16 Nonconformity, a fine-tuned sensibility, passionate eagerness, and burning love of the aesthetic... | |
 | Henri Dorra - 1994 - 420 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 makes any two things, persons, situations—seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any... | |
 | Linda C. Dowling - 1996 - 178 pages
...transcendentalism, coupled with his impassioned defense of the rich variety of the visible world—"It is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike" (Renaissance, 189)—worked in concert with the rich inheritance of Romantic poetry to make that transcendent... | |
 | Kai Erikson - 1997 - 324 pages
...by force of consciousness: 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 persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to... | |
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