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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Well" the boy hesitated "that may have been the pater's intention, but he didn't state it audibly. As a matter of fact, I perfected myself in running an automobile more than anything else, but I had a corking good time." "And now what? You see how inquisitive I am," Alice said. "And now" he repeated it after her "I want to go into business, and the pater says diplomacy for mine.
"The cave-men, the monkey-folk, and the ancestral bog-men of Terrence did that sort of thing " "But wait," Paula urged. "It's his conclusions and methods and processes. Also, there he disagrees with you, Aaron, fundamentally. He quoted Pater's 'that all art aspires toward music' " "Pure prehuman and micro-organic chemistry," Aaron broke in.
Pater's studies of the great pictures of the Renaissance are, if anything, rather too much taken up with their intellectual content, and their latent revelation of the temper of the time and the artist. No, these young men are no disciples of Pater. It is Whistler who is the prophet of the divorce of Art from Life, of the antithesis of Art and Nature.
Consequently, his work has a more personal and fresher quality, and a more exquisite 'finish, than that of a professional, howsoever finely endowed. All of the much that we admire in Walter Pater's prose comes of the lucky chance that he was an amateur, and never knew his business.
The scholar, for example, will put tenfold more meaning into his reading of the Divine Comedy than the untrained person. Or compare Pater's interpretation of the "Mona Lisa" with Muther's. Can we say that certain ideas and images belong properly to the work of art, while others do not? With regard to this, we can, I think, set up two criteria.
There is neither space here, nor need, to illustrate this opinion by quotation, though it may not be amiss, the musical and decorative qualities of Pater's prose having been so generally dwelt upon, to remind the reader of the magical simplicities by which it is no less frequently characterized.
"I call the way you twist things round and make them hang together most unfair. You couldn't have been nastier if you'd caught me flirting. Could he, diddums?" "We're in a bad hole, and must make the best of it. I shall answer the pater's letter civilly. He's evidently anxious to do the decent thing. But I do not intend to forget these Schlegels in a hurry.
Surely to the intuition of this artist and thinker, the fundamental unity the unity between man's relations with external nature, with his own thoughts and with others' feelings stood revealed as the secret of the highest æsthetics. This which we guess at as the completion of Walter Pater's message, alas! must remain for ever a matter of surmise.
Leo Ulford seemed at present forced into a certain constraint by the family element in the box. He looked at his father sideways, then at Lady Holme, drummed one hand on his knee, and was evidently uncertain of himself. During the opening scene of the play he found an opportunity to whisper to Lady Holme: "I never can talk when pater's there!" She whispered back: "We mustn't talk now."
Swinburne tries to question the philosophy of Christianity in the metres of a Christmas carol: and Dante Rossetti tries to write as if he were Christina Rossetti. Certainly the almost successful summit of all this attempt is Pater's superb passage on the Mona Lisa; in which he seeks to make her at once a mystery of good and a mystery of evil.
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