 We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always trembling lest we are doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me : my whole nature tends to that impersonality...  Journal: The Journal Intime - Page 201by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...be the tyrants of it.37 We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always 356 AMIEL'S JOURNAL. trembling lest we are doing it a wrong. We must be...my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respec:and subordinates itself to the object ; it is love of truth which, holds me back from concluding... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always trembling lest we are doing it a wrong. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my whole nature tends to that impersonality which... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. AVe must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own...which holds me back from concluding and deciding." The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1887 - 524 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1891 - 378 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form, we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. 87 We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always...love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding.—And then I am always retracing my steps : instead of going forwards I work in a circle... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1893 - 420 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form, we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it.16 We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always...to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. Thia sort of confident effrontery is beyond me : my whole nature tends to that impersonality which... | |
 | 1902 - 594 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form, we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always trembling lest we are doing it wrong. ... I am always retracing my steps ; instead of going forward I work in a circle ; I am afraid... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This... | |
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