Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxii
... seems to So much for the place which the Journal -the fruit of so many years of painful thought and disappointed effort be at last securing for its author among those contemporaries who in his lifetime knew nothing of him . It is a ...
... seems to So much for the place which the Journal -the fruit of so many years of painful thought and disappointed effort be at last securing for its author among those contemporaries who in his lifetime knew nothing of him . It is a ...
Page xxviii
... seems to have been 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 ...
... seems to have been 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 ...
Page xliii
... seems to have had no family or party connections with the leaders of the defeated side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new government , two years after the violent measures ...
... seems to have had no family or party connections with the leaders of the defeated side , and as M. Scherer points out , he could accept a non - political post at the hands of the new government , two years after the violent measures ...
Page l
... this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German experience - unbalanced , as such an experience generally is with a young man , by family life , or by any healthy 1 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... this intoxication of thought he seems to have been always specially liable , and his German experience - unbalanced , as such an experience generally is with a young man , by family life , or by any healthy 1 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page liii
... seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a specta- tor , so to speak , of the ...
... seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again : ' I am a specta- tor , so to speak , of the ...
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