Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xii
... conscious- ' Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas ; you will be most useful so . ' ness : - MARY A. WARD . INTRODUCTION . It was in the last of 1892 was xii ...
... conscious- ' Let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas ; you will be most useful so . ' ness : - MARY A. WARD . INTRODUCTION . It was in the last of 1892 was xii ...
Page xiv
... conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - examination and con- fession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard . In ...
... conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - examination and con- fession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard . In ...
Page xvii
... conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the ...
... conscious work worthy of his powers , has now left us , after his death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the ...
Page xix
... conscious of the rare and delicate qualities of the new writer . ' La rêverie a réussi a notre auteur , ' he says , a little reluctantly - for M. Caro has his doubts as to the legitimacy of rêverie ; ' il en a fait une œuvre qui restera ...
... conscious of the rare and delicate qualities of the new writer . ' La rêverie a réussi a notre auteur , ' he says , a little reluctantly - for M. Caro has his doubts as to the legitimacy of rêverie ; ' il en a fait une œuvre qui restera ...
Page xlvi
... conscious of such an idea . But ought I not to have been conscious of it ? ' he asks himself anxiously , -'ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others , more determined to con- quer their hostility or ...
... conscious of such an idea . But ought I not to have been conscious of it ? ' he asks himself anxiously , -'ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others , more determined to con- quer their hostility or ...
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