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Updated: May 2, 2025
In Pater we have Ruskin without the prejudices, that is, without the funny parts. I may be wrong, but I cannot recall at this moment a single passage in which Pater's style takes a holiday or in which his wisdom plays the fool. Newman and Ruskin were as careful and graceful stylists as he. Newman and Ruskin were as serious, elaborate, and even academic thinkers as he.
The words of a German critic on a Collection of English portraits in Berlin are very happily pointed and might be as aptly applied to writing as to painting. "English, utterly English! Nothing on God's earth could be more English than this whole collection. This is exactly what might be said of Pater's writing, but that is full-grown English.
By which I do not mean poetry only, but poetical prose like Pater's, poetical fiction like Charlotte Brontë's; I think that a narrative writer, a humorous writer, a critical writer, a biographical writer may continue to improve until his faculties begin to decay.
She had also wrapped her mother's dark shawl round her shoulders, and thus muffled up she was able to flit unperceived down the street, a swift little dark figure undistinguishable from the surrounding darkness of the night. Fortunately the Pater was at home and ready to see her. She heaved a sigh of relief as she entered the bare narrow little hall which led on the right to the Pater's parlour.
While it is true that he never learned to realize in full measure, to use Pater's phrase, "the responsibility of the artist to his materials," he assuredly disciplined himself to make the most, in his own way, of the rude and volcanic power which he possessed.
Is there any reason for the difference between the form of the two writers? Does this quotation from Pater's essay on Style describe Huxley's sentences?
"You're right, old man, and I'll give I'll try to give him the thrashing he deserves." "Big biz," said I. "You say you aren't as good as Hodgson; Hodgson isn't in the same street as Acton; ergo, you aren't in the same parish." "That's your beastly logic, Carr. Does a good cause count for nothing?" "Not for much, when you're dealing with sharps." "I see you've inherited your pater's law books.
And of this Mr. Pater's first and famous book was a very clear proof.
On reaching home he had to prepare "The Eagle's Nest" for publication; in the preface he gave special importance to Botticelli, and amplified it in lectures on early engraving, that Autumn; in which I remember his quoting with appreciation the passage on the Venus Anadyomene from Pater's "Studies in the Renaissance" just published.
Had Fate thrown him out of Oxford upon the world, the world would have been the richer for the prose of another John Addington Symonds, and would have forfeited Walter Pater's prose. In other words, we should have lost a half-crown and found a shilling.
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