W. Pater

Cited as W. Pater. — 6 quotations

Craze

Various crazes concerning health and disease.

Evocative

Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man.

Note

That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.

Pietism

The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in “Wilhelm Meister.”

Siderealize

German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators.

Subsume

A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness.