 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...the fine flower of the Vaudois mind in its sweetest and dreamiest form. 7tli February 1871. — It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...distinction (what is gentlemanly, ladylike), and their stiff rnrnrhmlichkeit. Their imagination lacks style, training, education, and knowledge of the world ; it... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...the fine flower of the Vaudois mind in its sweetest and dreamiest form. >7th February 1871. — It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...are most clearly visible. The notion of "bad taste " VOL. II. I seems to have no place in German aesthetics. Their elegance has no grace in it; and they... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...deficiencies of Germany, the advantage which the western nations have in their more finished civilization ! It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German ¿esthetics. Their elegance knows nothing of grace... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1887 - 524 pages
...deficiencies of Germany, the advantage which the western nations have in their more finished civilisation. "It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarriny on tlit fast« is wanting to German œsthetics. Their elegance knows nothing of grace... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Beauty, Personal - 1887 - 586 pages
...style, as of their dress." And the Swiss Professor, HF Amiel, remarks in his Journal Intime that " the notion of ' bad taste ' seems to have no place...German aesthetics. Their elegance has no grace in it ; they cannot understand the enormous difference there is between distinction (which is gentlemanly,... | |
 | Henry T. Finck - Beauty culture - 1887 - 650 pages
...style, as of their dress." And the Swiss Professor, HF Amiel, remarks in his Journal Intime that " the notion of ' bad taste' seems to have no place in German iesthetics. Their elegance has no grace in it; they cannot understand the enormous difference there... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...Germany, the advantage which the western nations have in their more finished civilisation : — ' It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...of France and England are most clearly visible. The - - -t 324 ESSAYS TS CRITICISM Ji notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...the general action, under pain of rebuff should it make itself apparent. 18th February 1871 . — It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...of " bad taste " seems to have no place in German eesthetics. Their elegance has no grace in it ; and they cannot understand the enormous difference... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1892 - 272 pages
...of Germany, the advantage which the western nations have in their more finished civilisation:— "It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German...and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics. Their elegance knows nothing of grace... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 424 pages
...the general action, under pain of rebuff should it make itself apparent. 18th February 1871 — It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German society, and its inferiority to the societies of Prance and England, are most clearly visible. The notion of ' bad taste ' seems to have no place in... | |
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It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German society, and its inferiority to the societies of France and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics. 
