...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?" In a world where nothing is quite permanent, where all things vanish at the very moment that we come...

...tremulous wisp constantly re-forming itself on the stream" of sense, and urges the perceptive mind to "be present always at the focus where the greatest...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy." He adds: "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life....

...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy 1 To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . We...

...of feeling, as illustrated, for example, by the famous Conclusion of Pater's Renaissance: "How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? . . . We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness,...

...conviction his impresario's passion for bringing great artists together; and as a principle, his desire "to be present always at the focus where the greatest...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy." Every vital impulse in him is an expansive impulse ; and it is his misfortune, when he is in "good...

...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the 372 focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with...

...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said...

...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?" (1: 236). It is, therefore, as part of his immanent critique of instrumental reason and its offspring,...

...years," the paintings in an exhibit in Padua, but "The Fruits of the Season." Pater exhorted us to "be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their present energy" — and here is the last paragraph of "A Small Grove," which begins with a description...

...can have only a limited number of worthy sensations, and the problem of living is to focus oneself on where "the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy." "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." 33 Never a showman, Pater had a...