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Walter Horatio Pater
Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as…
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There is surely something of natural magic in that! The wilder capacity of the mountains is brought out especially in a weird story of a haunted girl, an episode well…
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The history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of the Loire. But it was in France also…
And what applies to figure or flower must be understood of all other accidental or removable ornaments of writing whatever; and not of specific ornament only, but of all that…
Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The…
THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Nineteenth Century English Prose, by Walter Horatio Pater. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766140024.
Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pre-eminently…
""Leonardo da Vinci"" by Walter Horatio Pater is a biography of the famous Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist. Pater explores da Vinci's life, from his birth in 1452 to…
In this late age we are become so familiarised with the greater works of art as to be little sensitive of the act of creation in them : they do…
Those who were curious to trace the symmetries of chance or destiny felt now quite secure in observing that, of nine French kings of the name, every third Charles had…
I have reserved to the last what is perhaps the daintiest treatment of this subject in classical literature, the account of it which Ovid gives in the Fasti—-a kind of…
His devotion to the austere and abstract philosophy of Parmenides, its passivity or indifference, could not repress the opulent genius of Plato, or transform him into a cynic. Another ancient…
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In this late age we are become so familiarised with the greater works of art as to be little sensitive of the act of creation in them: they do not…
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Walter Pater
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