Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page ix
... expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the reading public , and among those who would naturally take a strong interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any ...
... expression . I believe there are many such to be found among the reading public , and among those who would naturally take a strong interest in such a life and mind as Amiel's , were it not for the barrier of lan- guage . It is , at any ...
Page x
... expression ; and I have been encouraged to do so by the fact that Amiel , when he came to prepare for publication a certain number of Pensées , extracted from the Journal , and printed at the end of a volume of poems published in 1853 ...
... expression ; and I have been encouraged to do so by the fact that Amiel , when he came to prepare for publication a certain number of Pensées , extracted from the Journal , and printed at the end of a volume of poems published in 1853 ...
Page xviii
... expression with sufficient emphasis and brusquerie to satisfy even his passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised , and the first article especially contained some remark- able criticisms , to ...
... expression with sufficient emphasis and brusquerie to satisfy even his passion for intellectual adventure . Still , the rank of the book was fully recognised , and the first article especially contained some remark- able criticisms , to ...
Page xxiv
... expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an aristocracy of birth as one of merit and intellect , and the moderate con- stitutional ideas which represented the Liberalism ...
... expression in the stories of Töpffer . The country was governed by an aristocracy , which was not so much an aristocracy of birth as one of merit and intellect , and the moderate con- stitutional ideas which represented the Liberalism ...
Page xxvii
... expression to his sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded ...
... expression to his sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded ...
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