Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page xxxix
... interest in everything Genevese , especially in everything that represented the older life of the town . When it was a question of separating the Genevese state from the church , which had been the center of the national life during ...
... interest in everything Genevese , especially in everything that represented the older life of the town . When it was a question of separating the Genevese state from the church , which had been the center of the national life during ...
Page 80
... interest of it seems to me to have vanished , but not the poetical , pathetic , or moral interest . June 18th . I have just been spending three hours in the orchard under the shade of the hedge , combining the spectacle of a beautiful ...
... interest of it seems to me to have vanished , but not the poetical , pathetic , or moral interest . June 18th . I have just been spending three hours in the orchard under the shade of the hedge , combining the spectacle of a beautiful ...
Page 293
... interest in it is fading ; my mind and my energies clamor for something else . What will Edmond Scherer say to the volume ? To the inmost self of me this literary attempt is quite indifferent — a Lilliputian affair . In comparing my ...
... interest in it is fading ; my mind and my energies clamor for something else . What will Edmond Scherer say to the volume ? To the inmost self of me this literary attempt is quite indifferent — a Lilliputian affair . In comparing my ...
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