"fenced opposites" of which many, certainly, then present, in that
Paris of the last of the Valois, could never by any possibility
become "indifferent," between the precious and the base,
aesthetically--between what was right and wrong, as matter of art? 

NOTES 

234.  +Pater's article appeared in The Fortnightly Review, 1889.
Later it was much revised and included as Chapter VII of the
unfinished novel, Gaston de Latour. 

234.  +From Heine's Aus der Harzreise, "Bergidylle 2": "Tannenbaum,
mit grunen Fingern," Stanza 10. 

243.  +E-text editor's transliteration: hybris.  Liddell and Scott
definition: "wanton violence, arising from the pride of strength,
passion, etc." 

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