 ... 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,  Penn Monthly - Page 425edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is...High passions give one this quickened sense of life, — eestasv and sorrow of love, politleal or religious enthusiasm, or the ' enthusiasm of humanity.'... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...longer or shorter, which condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, ' is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1875 - 328 pages
...longer or shorter, which condemned mortals have to pass before they die. ' Our one chance/ it is said, 'is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time.' .... So sceptics teach. Can you wonder that some who played an honourable part in Oxford life a generation... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...this interval in listlessness, some in high 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.' Such is his philosophy of life, and he adds, ' of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high« passions, 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is...many pulsations as possible into the given time." Here was the characteristic note of the book. Mr. Pater, indeed, was careful to explain that among... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - English literature - 1909 - 440 pages
...indefinite reprieve : we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. . . . Our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. ... Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire for beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Authors, English - 1909 - 368 pages
...passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world," in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. Great passions may give us this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Criticism - 1910 - 284 pages
...judgment of death, a brief illusion of stability in the eternal flux, and that "our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time." And "of this wisdom," he concludes, "the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for... | |
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