Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxx
... remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do wisely to plant on it a flag known to himself alone , and , like Achilles , " devour his heart in secret ; " whether ...
... remains the question whether , after all , ' he who discovers a new world in the depths of the invisible would not do wisely to plant on it a flag known to himself alone , and , like Achilles , " devour his heart in secret ; " whether ...
Page lxiv
... ' Défiance and im- 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 .
... ' Défiance and im- 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 lxv
... remains unachieved . I am always preparing and never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty ...
... remains unachieved . I am always preparing and never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty ...
Page lxix
... remains for us to gather up a few facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to complete and cor- rect the picture we have so far drawn of the author of the Journal . For Amiel ...
... remains for us to gather up a few facts and impressions of a different kind from those which we have been dwelling on , which may serve to complete and cor- rect the picture we have so far drawn of the author of the Journal . For Amiel ...
Page lxxviii
... remains of Amiel's prose outside the Journal there is no occasion to dwell . The two essays on Madame de Staël and Rousseau contain much fine critical remark , and might find a place perhaps as an appendix to some future edition of the ...
... remains of Amiel's prose outside the Journal there is no occasion to dwell . The two essays on Madame de Staël and Rousseau contain much fine critical remark , and might find a place perhaps as an appendix to some future edition of the ...
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