Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxvi
... bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of political change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his parents . They had died comparatively young ...
... bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of political change . In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his parents . They had died comparatively young ...
Page xxxvii
... brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and the result is of the highest literary interest and value ...
... brings those elements in him which belong to his French inheritance and something individual besides , which is not French but Genevese - to bear on his new acquisitions , and the result is of the highest literary interest and value ...
Page lxiv
... brings with it its natural consequences - What timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is enough for me ; expres . sion seems to me often a profanity . I lack is character , will , individuality ...
... brings with it its natural consequences - What timidity of soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is enough for me ; expres . sion seems to me often a profanity . I lack is character , will , individuality ...
Page lxxiv
... bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre pic- ture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the glow and splendour of expression which ...
... bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre pic- ture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the glow and splendour of expression which ...
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... little whirlwinds which agitate our little Europe . At bottom there is but one subject of study the forms and metamorphoses of mind . All other subjects may be reduced to that ; all other studies bring us back to 2 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... little whirlwinds which agitate our little Europe . At bottom there is but one subject of study the forms and metamorphoses of mind . All other subjects may be reduced to that ; all other studies bring us back to 2 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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