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• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  Walter Pater

  Facts, Wordsworth, Natural

  Walter Pater (1901). “The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'”

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• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Sight, Calling

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

  Walter Pater

  Knowledge, Spirit, Modern

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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• But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

  Walter Pater

  Play, Mind, Magic

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• Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

  Walter Pater

  Law, Mind, Association

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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