Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lv
... instincts of life , was in Amiel almost constant , and the natural impulse of the human animal towards healthy move- ment and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward ...
... instincts of life , was in Amiel almost constant , and the natural impulse of the human animal towards healthy move- ment and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward ...
Page lxiv
... - puissance are the words constantly on his lips . My friends see what I might have been ; I see what I am . ' And yet the literary instinct remains , and must in some way be satisfied . And so lxiv AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... - puissance are the words constantly on his lips . My friends see what I might have been ; I see what I am . ' And yet the literary instinct remains , and must in some way be satisfied . And so lxiv AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lxxxii
... instinct , as one declares , with a strange and marvellous poetry ; ' full of phrases ' d'une intense suggestion de beauté , ' according to another . Not that the whole of the Journal flows with the same ease , the same felicity . There ...
... instinct , as one declares , with a strange and marvellous poetry ; ' full of phrases ' d'une intense suggestion de beauté , ' according to another . Not that the whole of the Journal flows with the same ease , the same felicity . There ...
Page lxxxviii
... instinct in him is as strong and tenacious as in any of the representative exponents of the life of faith . The intel- lect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His ...
... instinct in him is as strong and tenacious as in any of the representative exponents of the life of faith . The intel- lect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His ...
Page xciv
... instinct and inheritance he loves ; he makes no compromise with dogma or with miracle . Beyond the religions of the present he sees always the essential religion , which lasts when all local forms and marvels have passed away ; and as ...
... instinct and inheritance he loves ; he makes no compromise with dogma or with miracle . Beyond the religions of the present he sees always the essential religion , which lasts when all local forms and marvels have passed away ; and as ...
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