A Sheaf of Papers (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Elton, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330025458 ISBN 13 : 9781330025451

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Poetry and Life: AD ialogue The scene was the Common Room of the College of St Thomas (the sceptic, not the schoolman). The season was a midsummer evening. The party had dined in the presence of though not entirely upon, a brilliant sunset, whose latter rays caught the ancient silver on the table and the soft edges of elm-trees in the garden. The Junior Fellow before retreating hadproduced another allowance of the famous 1851; the abstemious Dean had gone to his Sanskrit, and the veteran Master, early as it was, to his secular slumbers, secular in every sense. There lingered three members of the society, specially bound together in a pleasant and pedantic intimacy, who had fallen into the trick of addressing one another, after office hours, by classic names. By these alone we shall know them. Aristippus was namedafter thefounder ofthe Cyrenaics; that misunderstood sect, for whom the chief or only good was said to consist in momentary pleasure. This modern Aristippus was 1accused of being the last surviving disciple of Walter Pater. The second friend, Panaetius, took his nickname from the most liberal of the Roman Stoics: he was strongly tinged with Platonism, and was the idealist of the group. The third, Palinurus, liked to pilot all discussions between extremes. He was for ever affecting to find a common ground for the others, and to reconcile their notions from a higher point of view. Perhaps he would have been sorry to succeed; but he never had any such occasion to be sorry. All three men would soon be old; but this topic they neither courted nor avoided; nor did they, as such companions are prone to do, fall to comparing the signs of infirmity in their seniors. On the contrary, as usual, they began to speak first of port, and then of poetry. ARISTIPPUS. No, not another glass for me. It would bspoil the minute. I have had just my stint. If I took more, my
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330025458
• ISBN 13: 9781330025451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
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