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Page xxxiii
... beauty even , of a certain kind , but no plastic power , none of the incommunicable magic , which a George Eliot seeks for in vain , while it comes unasked , to deck with imperishable charm the commonplace metaphysic and the simpler ...
... beauty even , of a certain kind , but no plastic power , none of the incommunicable magic , which a George Eliot seeks for in vain , while it comes unasked , to deck with imperishable charm the commonplace metaphysic and the simpler ...
Page xxxvi
... beauty of manner that fine literary expression in which Amiel has been able to clothe the subtler processes of thought , no less than the secrets of 1 religious feeling , or the aspects of natural scenery xxxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... beauty of manner that fine literary expression in which Amiel has been able to clothe the subtler processes of thought , no less than the secrets of 1 religious feeling , or the aspects of natural scenery xxxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
Page xxxvii
... beauty of manner which first helped the book to penetrate , faire sa trouée , as the French say , we must add its extraordinary psychological interest . Both as poet and as psycholo- gist , Amiel makes another link in a special ...
... beauty of manner which first helped the book to penetrate , faire sa trouée , as the French say , we must add its extraordinary psychological interest . Both as poet and as psycholo- gist , Amiel makes another link in a special ...
Page xxxviii
... beauty nor the rich descriptive wealth of Senancour . The Dent de Midi , with its untrodden solitude , its primeval silences and its hovering eagles , the Swiss landscape described in the ' Fragment on the Ranz des Vaches , ' the summer ...
... beauty nor the rich descriptive wealth of Senancour . The Dent de Midi , with its untrodden solitude , its primeval silences and its hovering eagles , the Swiss landscape described in the ' Fragment on the Ranz des Vaches , ' the summer ...
Page xxxix
... beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for intellectual discovery , and new powers of sympathy with ...
... beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for intellectual discovery , and new powers of sympathy with ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frederic Amiel Henri-Frederic Amiel No preview available - 2016 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frederic Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2018 |
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