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Appreciations (1889)"A Study of Dionysus" repr. in Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, Macmillan (1895)"Coleridge's Writings" repr., expanded, as "Coleridge" in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889)"Conclusion" repr. in Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Macmillan (1873)"Dante Gabriel Rossetti" repr. in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889)

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Such condition of suspended judgment indeed, in its more genial development and under felicitous culture, is but the expectation, the receptivity, of the faithful scholar, determined not to foreclose what is still a question—the "philosophic temper," in short, for which a survival of query will be still the salt of truth, even in the most absolutely ascertained knowledge.

Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures, ch. 7, p. 178, Macmillan (1893).

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