Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xx
... become generally known . One remarkable English testimony to it , however , must be quoted . Six months after the publication of the first volume , the late Mark Pattison , who since then has himself bequeathed to literature a strange ...
... become generally known . One remarkable English testimony to it , however , must be quoted . Six months after the publication of the first volume , the late Mark Pattison , who since then has himself bequeathed to literature a strange ...
Page xli
... become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical life which lay before him at the moment ...
... become difficult and painful to him , and he has developed what he himself calls a wavering manner , born of doubt and scruple . ' How few could have foreseen the failure in public and practical life which lay before him at the moment ...
Page liii
... become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a specta- tor , so to speak , of the molecular whirl- wind ...
... become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a specta- tor , so to speak , of the molecular whirl- wind ...
Page liv
... become habitual is likely to lose his hold upon the normal in- terests of life . What are politics or litera- ture to such a mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed reflections of ideal truths for which neither language nor ...
... become habitual is likely to lose his hold upon the normal in- terests of life . What are politics or litera- ture to such a mind but fragments without real importance - dwarfed reflections of ideal truths for which neither language nor ...
Page lv
... become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . But a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily kept within bounds by the ...
... become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . But a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily kept within bounds by the ...
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