Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page x
... literary to the more technical 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 ...
... literary to the more technical 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 ...
Page xiii
... literary world knew nothing prior to its appearance , contained a long and remark- able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends ...
... literary world knew nothing prior to its appearance , contained a long and remark- able Introduction from the pen of M. Ed- mond Scherer , the well - known French critic , who had been for many years one of Amiel's most valued friends ...
Page xiv
... literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which might seem to them to possess either in- terest as thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
... literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which might seem to them to possess either in- terest as thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will ...
Page xv
... literary and philosophical ; its prevailing tone was a tone of introspection , and the public which can admit the claims and overlook the inherent defects of intro- spective literature has always been a small one . The writer of the ...
... literary and philosophical ; its prevailing tone was a tone of introspection , and the public which can admit the claims and overlook the inherent defects of intro- spective literature has always been a small one . The writer of the ...
Page xvii
... his time for their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... his time for their in- capacity to praise , and praise at once , that ' the surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries . ' M. Re- nan , I think , with that exquisite literary sense INTRODUCTION . xvii.
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