Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page v
... give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left untranslated seemed ...
... give my reasons for these variations at length . They depend upon certain differences between the Eng- lish and the French public , which are more readily felt than explained . Some of the passages which I have left untranslated seemed ...
Page x
... give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the more literary to the more technical expression ...
... give any other than a literal render- ing of such passages , if the thought of the original was to be preserved ; but in those cases where a choice was open to me , I have preferred the more literary to the more technical expression ...
Page xxvii
... give grate- ful 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 ...
... give grate- ful 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 ...
Page xxxiii
... give , and then made the stuff so gained subservient to its own ends . 6 Of these years of travel , however , the four years spent at Berlin were by far the most important . It was at Heidelberg and Berlin , ' says M. Scherer , that the ...
... give , and then made the stuff so gained subservient to its own ends . 6 Of these years of travel , however , the four years spent at Berlin were by far the most important . It was at Heidelberg and Berlin , ' says M. Scherer , that the ...
Page xxxiv
... give a certain barbarous ' air to many passages of the Journal . But both admit that Amiel's individuality owes a great part of its penetrating force to that intermingling of German with French elc- ments , of which there are such ...
... give a certain barbarous ' air to many passages of the Journal . But both admit that Amiel's individuality owes a great part of its penetrating force to that intermingling of German with French elc- ments , of which there are such ...
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