Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxxxi
... harmony with the central French tradition . Proba- bly a Frenchman will be inclined to apply Sainte - Beuve's remarks on Amiel's elder countryman , Rodolphe Töpffer , to Amiel himself : ' C'est ainsi qu'on écrit dans les littératures ...
... harmony with the central French tradition . Proba- bly a Frenchman will be inclined to apply Sainte - Beuve's remarks on Amiel's elder countryman , Rodolphe Töpffer , to Amiel himself : ' C'est ainsi qu'on écrit dans les littératures ...
Page 72
... harmony , and grace . Christianity , in breaking man up into outer and inner , the world into earth and heaven , hell and paradise , has decom- posed the human unity , in order , it is true , to reconstruct it more profoundly and more ...
... harmony , and grace . Christianity , in breaking man up into outer and inner , the world into earth and heaven , hell and paradise , has decom- posed the human unity , in order , it is true , to reconstruct it more profoundly and more ...
Page 108
... harmony . From the infernal shades I feel myself mounting towards the regions of light ; my flight across chaos finds its rest in paradise . Heaven , hell , the world are within us . Man is the great abyss . 27th July 1855 . So life ...
... harmony . From the infernal shades I feel myself mounting towards the regions of light ; my flight across chaos finds its rest in paradise . Heaven , hell , the world are within us . Man is the great abyss . 27th July 1855 . So life ...
Page 131
... harmony and perfect unity . His quartet describes a day in one of those Attic souls who prefigure on earth the serenity of Elysium . The first scene is a pleasant conversation , like that of Socrates on the banks of the Ilissus ; its ...
... harmony and perfect unity . His quartet describes a day in one of those Attic souls who prefigure on earth the serenity of Elysium . The first scene is a pleasant conversation , like that of Socrates on the banks of the Ilissus ; its ...
Page 132
... harmony . What is the cause of it a misunderstanding , a piece of neglect ? Impossible to say , but it breaks out not- withstanding . The andante is a scene of reproach and complaint , but as between immortals . What loftiness in ...
... harmony . What is the cause of it a misunderstanding , a piece of neglect ? Impossible to say , but it breaks out not- withstanding . The andante is a scene of reproach and complaint , but as between immortals . What loftiness in ...
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