 It was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones ; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2481887Full view - About this book
 | 1919 - 1188 pages
...of the soul? Who knows how much ground there may be for the ^sculapian belief, referred to by Pater, that 'all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body?' Shelley and Francis Thompson were not the least spiritual of the poets of the nineteenth century. And... | |
 | Walter Pater - Christian fiction - 1885 - 464 pages
...multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief...mean bodily sanity ; and the religion of the god of D bodily health — Sahator, as they called him, absolutely — had a chance just then of becoming... | |
 | Walter Pater - Christianity and other religions - 1885 - 246 pages
...multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief...be reached through the subtle gateways of the body. Solus— salvation — for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity ; and the religion of the god... | |
 | Walter Pater - Christianity and other religions - 1885 - 248 pages
...of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body. :I^ .' Salus—salvation—for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity; and the religion of the god of VOL. I. , D bodily health—Salvator, as they called him, absolutely— had a chance just then of becoming... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1896 - 372 pages
...multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief...salvation, for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity. The religion of the god of bodily health, Salvator, as they called him absolutely, had a chance just... | |
 | Paul Tyner - New Thought - 1898 - 580 pages
...mild and helpful god studied the secrets hidden in plant and mineral and all earth forces, believing that "all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body." Esculapius himself had become a God, leaving his many sons to continue his direct work on earth. But... | |
 | Pasquale J. Accardo - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 340 pages
...the cult of the god Aesculapius: "Salus, salvation, for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity. The religion of the god of bodily health, Salvator,...absolutely, had a chance, just then of becoming the one religion."18 The fundamental inability of these different belief systems to adequately address the... | |
 | Vincent Sherry - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 420 pages
...multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief...maladies of the soul might be reached through the gateways of the body." The complication of Pater's syntax serves at once to replicate the hypotaxis... | |
 | Walter Pater - Fiction - 2005 - 393 pages
...the subtle gateways of the body. SaluSf salvation, for the Romans, had come to mean bodily sanity. The religion of the god of bodily health, Salvator,...just then of becoming the one religion; that mild snd philanthropic son of Apollo surviving, or 22 absorbing, all other pagan godhead. The apparatus... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Literary Collections - 2000 - 552 pages
...Marius the Epicurean, where the narrator observes of the 'religion of Aesculapius' that it possessed the 'valuable, because partly practicable, belief that...be reached through the subtle gateways of the body' (PM i. 33; OW 578; PDGOi86). 25 .25-6. Be always searching for new sensations: cf. Pater, 'Preface'... | |
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