Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xvii
... 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.
... 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.
Page xxvii
... sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and ...
... sense of obligation . Writing in 1856 he describes the effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840. the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and ...
Page xxxi
... sense ; but there is something else too there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
... sense ; but there is something else too there is a breath of that same speculative passion which burns in the Journal , and one hears , as it were , the first accents of a melancholy , the first expression of a mood of mind , which ...
Page l
... sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe ...
... sense of curiosity or cold critical instinct , he came to his desk as to an altar . ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had expe ...
Page liii
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them I can find no words for what I feel . My ...
... sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them I can find no words for what I feel . My ...
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