'The Stones of Venice' and 'The Seven Lamps' have taught me a lot.

But you always have to be saying to yourself, 'Is this gorgeous nonsense or isn't it ?' whereas in Pater there's no nonsense at all.

You're simply carried along on a full stream of Beauty straight into the open Sea of Truth." And Ursula Winwood, to whom Archbishops had been deferential and Cabinet Ministers had come for, guidance, meekly promised to send at once for Pater's 'Renaissance' and so fill in a most lamentable gap in her education.
"My uncle, the Archdeacon," she said, after a while, "reminded me that the great Savelli was a Venetian general--of Roman family; and, strangely enough, his name, too, was Paul.

Perhaps that's how you got the name." "That must be how," said Paul dreamily.

He had not heard of the great general.