 This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty; he that wrought Made it with dreams and faultless words and thought That seeks and finds and loses in the dense Dim air of life that beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 2621878Full view - About this book
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...Anne prose appeared to me terribly bald, and irritatingly rational. Bnt Mr. Paters essays became to me "the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty". They are still this to me. It is possible, of course that I may exaggerate about them; I certainly... | |
 | English language - 1913 - 586 pages
...Anne prose appeared to me terribly bald, and irritatingly rational. Bnt Mr. Paters essays became to me "the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty". They are still this to me. It is possible, of course that I may exaggerate about them; I certainly... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - Criticism - 1914 - 126 pages
...seem to justify an utterance of Wilde himself concerning these essays, — that they became to him »'the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty'. » Though cleverly written, we cannot regard them as anything but mere youthful tentatives, and may... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - Literary Collections - 1915 - 400 pages
...applies with far greater fitness to Pater's masterpiece; for, if ever a book deserved to be described as The golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty, it is Marius the Epicurean. It has been natural to dwell so long on this "golden book," because Pater's... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Prose literature - 1916 - 726 pages
...prose appeared to me terribly bald, and irritatingly rational. But Mr. Pater's essays became to me 'the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty.' They are still this to me. It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly... | |
 | Algernon Charles-Swinburne - 1917 - 378 pages
...sundering sea Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. SONNET (WITH A COPY OF Mademoiselle de Maupin) THIS is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy...beauty's excellence Wherewith love makes one hour of life distraught And all hours after follow and find not aught. Here is that height of all love's eminence... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Poets, English - 1917 - 408 pages
...Catullus. The two English poems in the Tombeau of 1873 are the impish sonnet on Mademoiselle de Maupin : This is the golden book of spirit and sense, The holy writ of beauty, composed in derision of the Philistines, and a noble elegy, splendid "in clear chryselephantine verse,"... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 1178 pages
...of happiness. Listen to this for a moment. Let me read you some lines about a very celebrated novel. This is the golden book of spirit and sense — •...the dense Dim air of life, that beauty's excellence, Lady Lilitk Wardour : How very charming ! What is that about, and who wrote it ? Gage Stanley : It... | |
 | Peter Raby - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 180 pages
...is, or may be made to be." Equally significant is Wilde's admission that Pater's Essays became to him '"the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty". They are still this to me. It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly... | |
 | R. M. Seiler - Authors, English - 1980 - 476 pages
...Anne prose appeared to me terribly bald, and irritatingly rational. But Mr Pater's essays became to me 'the golden book of spirit and sense, the holy writ of beauty'. They are still this to me. It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly... | |
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