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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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What makes revolutionists is either self-pity, or indignation for the sake of others, or a sympathetic perception of the dominant undercurrent of progress in things. The nature before us is revolutionist from the direct sense of personal worth,... that pride of life, which to the Greek was a heavenly grace.

Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. "Diaphaneitè," p. 219, Miscellaneous Studies, Macmillan (1895).

Posthumously prepared the press by Charles L. Shadwell, written in 1864, but not published during Pater's lifetime.

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