Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxix
... individual in it is first of all the strong Christian feeling which much of it shows , and secondly , the tone of mel- ancholy which already makes itself felt here and there , especially in one rather re- markable passage . As to the ...
... individual in it is first of all the strong Christian feeling which much of it shows , and secondly , the tone of mel- ancholy which already makes itself felt here and there , especially in one rather re- markable passage . As to the ...
Page xxxvii
... 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 . Not that he succeeds altogether in the task of fusion . For one who was to write ...
... 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 . Not that he succeeds altogether in the task of fusion . For one who was to write ...
Page xxxix
... individual expression . 6 We have been carried forward , however , a little too far by this general discussion of Amiel's debts to Germany . Let us take - up the biographical thread again . In 1848 his INTRODUCTION . xxxix.
... individual expression . 6 We have been carried forward , however , a little too far by this general discussion of Amiel's debts to Germany . Let us take - up the biographical thread again . In 1848 his INTRODUCTION . xxxix.
Page liii
... individual life ; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis , an irresistible movement of existence , which is going on within me - and this phenom- enology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world . am , or ...
... individual life ; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis , an irresistible movement of existence , which is going on within me - and this phenom- enology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world . am , or ...
Page lvii
... individual error and suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment of human feeling , the quick- ened sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is ...
... individual error and suffering is almost forgotten ; all that we can realise is the enrichment of human feeling , the quick- ened sense of spiritual reality bequeathed to us by the baffled and solitary thinker whose via dolorosa is ...
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