The Life of Walter Pater
The Life of Walter Pater
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In none of his writings will there be found an ill-natured word against anyone. His ideal was "not pleasure but fulness of life ;" he required vivid sensations, and culture as the only means of obtaining them. Although Marius's work changed from poetry to prose he retained, like Pater, This famous poem, of imknown authorship, is often printed with the works of Catullus.
Marius, Vol. I., p. 126.
(^> Horace: Epistles, Book, i., 17; Marius, i., 139.
Digitized by Google 84 LIFE OF WALTER PATER th...e '*poetic temper." "I should like," Pater once said to Mr. Jackson, **my Imaginary Portraits to be called, if only they could be, Prose Idylls/' At Rome, Marius is thrown into the company of the stoical and noble-minded Emperor Marcus Aurelius,*** and finds gods whom no man can number. The old Olympians had formidable rivals in a host of new deities introduced from other lands. ''High and low addressed themselves to all deities alike without scruple ; confusing them together when they prayed," oflfering them "flowers, incense and ceremonial lights." It didn't seem to matter very much what you worshipped as long as you gave it flowers and candles, and incense; and one grain, at least.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In none of his writings will there be found an ill-natured word against anyone. His ideal was "not pleasure but fulness of life ;" he required vivid sensations, and culture as the only means of obtaining them. Although Marius's work changed from poetry to prose he retained, like Pater, This famous poem, of imknown authorship, is often printed with the works of Catullus.
Marius, Vol. I., p. 126.
(^> Horace: Epistles, Book, i., 17; Marius, i., 139.
Digitized by Google 84 LIFE OF WALTER PATER th...e '*poetic temper." "I should like," Pater once said to Mr. Jackson, **my Imaginary Portraits to be called, if only they could be, Prose Idylls/' At Rome, Marius is thrown into the company of the stoical and noble-minded Emperor Marcus Aurelius,*** and finds gods whom no man can number. The old Olympians had formidable rivals in a host of new deities introduced from other lands. ''High and low addressed themselves to all deities alike without scruple ; confusing them together when they prayed," oflfering them "flowers, incense and ceremonial lights." It didn't seem to matter very much what you worshipped as long as you gave it flowers and candles, and incense; and one grain, at least.
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