Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxviii
... result partly of these lectures , and partly of a visit to Italy which began in November 1841 . In 1842 , a year which was spent entirely in Italy and Sicily , he contributed three articles on M. Rio's book , L'Art Chrétien , to the ...
... result partly of these lectures , and partly of a visit to Italy which began in November 1841 . In 1842 , a year which was spent entirely in Italy and Sicily , he contributed three articles on M. Rio's book , L'Art Chrétien , to the ...
Page xxxv
... inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century and all its ways . ' German systems , German hypotheses , be liefs , and poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
... inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century and all its ways . ' German systems , German hypotheses , be liefs , and poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
Page xxxvii
... 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 and think in French , he was perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ...
... 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 and think in French , he was perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ...
Page xlvii
... results on his temperament and on his public career , than anything very tragic and acute . They were real , and he , being what he was , was specially unfitted to cope with and conquer them . But he had his friends , his pleas- ures ...
... results on his temperament and on his public career , than anything very tragic and acute . They were real , and he , being what he was , was specially unfitted to cope with and conquer them . But he had his friends , his pleas- ures ...
Page lvi
... result is another soul's tragedy , another story of conflict and failure , which throws fresh light on the mysterious capacities of human nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George ...
... result is another soul's tragedy , another story of conflict and failure , which throws fresh light on the mysterious capacities of human nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George ...
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