Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 51
... taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the chatterers , to mediocrity and to violence . The article breathes a certain manly melancholy , be- fitting a funeral oration over one who was a master in the things of the mind ...
... taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the chatterers , to mediocrity and to violence . The article breathes a certain manly melancholy , be- fitting a funeral oration over one who was a master in the things of the mind ...
Page 88
... tastes , dislikes , fears , desires , interests , or passions may dictate , that is to say , their judgment is not a judgment at all . How many people are capable of de- livering a fair verdict on the struggle now going on ? Very few ...
... tastes , dislikes , fears , desires , interests , or passions may dictate , that is to say , their judgment is not a judgment at all . How many people are capable of de- livering a fair verdict on the struggle now going on ? Very few ...
Page 94
... taste , ear , and heart , depends probably upon two things : upon the moral philoso- phy of the author and upon his literary principles . The profound contempt for humanity which characterises the physic- logical school , and the ...
... taste , ear , and heart , depends probably upon two things : upon the moral philoso- phy of the author and upon his literary principles . The profound contempt for humanity which characterises the physic- logical school , and the ...
Page 97
... taste ' seems to have no place in German æsthetics . Their elegance has no grace in it ; and they cannot understand the enormous difference there is between distinction ( what is gentle- manly , ladylike ) , and their stiff vornehm ...
... taste ' seems to have no place in German æsthetics . Their elegance has no grace in it ; and they cannot understand the enormous difference there is between distinction ( what is gentle- manly , ladylike ) , and their stiff vornehm ...
Page 99
... taste hold festival , and the associations of reality are exchanged for the associations of imagina- tion . So understood , society is a form of poetry ; the cultivated classes deliberately recompose the idyll of the past and the buried ...
... taste hold festival , and the associations of reality are exchanged for the associations of imagina- tion . So understood , society is a form of poetry ; the cultivated classes deliberately recompose the idyll of the past and the buried ...
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