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How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little they have emancipated us!

From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Pater, Walter

How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little have they really emancipated us!

From The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Pater, Walter