Walter Pater

Walter Pater

Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction.

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    Thy gowns, thy shoes,thy beds of roses,
    Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
    Soon break, soon wither—soon forgotten,
    In folly ripe,in reason rotten.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave.
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)