Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page xxi
... Sainte - Beuve's authority for it -is best described by the motto of Montaigne , “ Un peu de chaque chose et rien de l'ensemble , à la française , " and the thought he tries to express in it is thought torn and strained by the constant ...
... Sainte - Beuve's authority for it -is best described by the motto of Montaigne , “ Un peu de chaque chose et rien de l'ensemble , à la française , " and the thought he tries to express in it is thought torn and strained by the constant ...
Page 106
... Sainte - Beuve may be taken as a kind of answer by anticipation to this accusation , which Amiel brings more than once in the course of the Journal : " Toute nation livrée á elle - même et à son propre génie se fait une critique ...
... Sainte - Beuve may be taken as a kind of answer by anticipation to this accusation , which Amiel brings more than once in the course of the Journal : " Toute nation livrée á elle - même et à son propre génie se fait une critique ...
Page 206
... Sainte Beuve . What a loss ! October 16 , 1869. - Laboremus seems to have been the motto of Sainte - Beuve , as it was that of Septimius Severus . He died in harness , and up to the evening before his last day he still wrote ...
... Sainte Beuve . What a loss ! October 16 , 1869. - Laboremus seems to have been the motto of Sainte - Beuve , as it was that of Septimius Severus . He died in harness , and up to the evening before his last day he still wrote ...
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