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Updated: May 2, 2025
Like the quality of Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean, or that of Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, it will not satisfy the sudden and the brash. The reader will find in his round of the picture theatres many single scenes and parts of plays that elucidate the title of this chapter. Often the first two-thirds of the story will fit it well.
There is another reason for such ascetism as was taught in Marius the Epicurean and in Pater's book on Plato: the modest certainty of all pleasure derived from the beautiful will accustom the perfect æsthete to seek for the like in other branches of activity.
"It is all very well," he reflected, "the pater's saying that he will be just to all, but one can't be just indefinitely. Money isn't elastic. What's to happen if Evie has a family? And, come to that, so may the pater. There'll not be enough to go round, for there's none coming in, either through Dolly or Percy. It's damnable!"
What is there plainer? You are engaged to no one." Cornelia came timidly close to him. "Pray, be explicit!" "Well! this offer." "Yes; but what there is something to escape from." Wilfrid deliberately replied: "There is no doubt of the Pater's intentions with regard to Mrs. Chump." "He means...?" "He means to marry her." "And you, Wilfrid?" "Well, of course, he cuts me out.
'Because Mullins is there waitin' for the victim, said Stalky delicately, and they all laughed. 'You ought to have shaken that mouse out of your trouser-leg, Pater. That's the way I did in my youth. Pater's revertin' to his second childhood. Never mind, Pater, we all respect you and your future caree-ah. Winton, still writhing, growled. Vernon leaning on the desk somehow shook it again.
Fabian, who was well pleased that Cora so readily fell in with his plans. "What do you think of the pater's marriage, Cora? he next inquired. "I would rather not give an opinion, Uncle Fabian," she answered. "Then I am equally well answered, for that is giving a very strong opinion!" he exclaimed. "The deed is done and cannot be undone!" "Can it not? Perhaps it can!"
These moments are filled with eternity; these moments are joyful because they do not seem momentary. Once look at them as moments after Pater's manner, and they become as cold as Pater and his style. Man cannot love mortal things. He can only love immortal things for an instant. Pater's mistake is revealed in his most famous phrase. He asks us to burn with a hard, gem-like flame.
Pater's reading of the Madonna's expression. It seems to me that Botticelli meant to portray the mingled awe and tranquillity of a mortal mother chosen for the Son of God. He appears to have sometimes aimed at conveying more than painting can compass; and, since he had not Lionardo's genius, he gives sadness, mournfulness, or discontent, for some more subtle mood.
"How's that for a blade? Big flat British keys good steel. I welded 'em together, end to end." "Gad! the pater's private keys!" gasped Lord James. "You don't tell me the rascal was imbecile enough to keep those keys in his pocket? certain means of identification if he'd been searched!" "What!" shouted Blake. "Then the duke he cleaned out was your dad. Whew!"
He felt that in his rescuer he had found a new friend, and one whom he was going to like very well, indeed, and he wanted his company, if it was possible. "Yes. No one knows I am out," said Jack, frankly. "The pater's like the rest of them here he doesn't take the war seriously yet. When I said the other day that it might last long enough for me to be old enough to go, he laughed at me.
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