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Also up for discussion will be the contrast between Mill and Carlyle, and between Tolstoi and Pater...
...Pater Noster Our pirate who art British, usurper of our blood, may the massacre of sanction-ists arrive as you have willed it, on sea as on land. End for today and for always your designs on Abyssinia, repay us our debts of 1915 to 1918, as we will repay to your credit the dumdum bullets you sold the Negus. Amen...
Life With Father. Gay, sometimes hilarious saga of a rambunctious pater familias during Manhattan's horsecar era (TIME...
...paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that he went on his knees, kissed Oscar's hand. No one enjoyed more than Ruskin and Pater the story of how Oscar had thrown four big athletes downstairs when they came...
...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...