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Page x
... better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the author of Une Cruelle Enigme . But whether he has understood Amiel or no , M. Bourget is fully alive to the mark which the Journal is likely to make among modern records ...
... better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the author of Une Cruelle Enigme . But whether he has understood Amiel or no , M. Bourget is fully alive to the mark which the Journal is likely to make among modern records ...
Page xiv
... better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them , and whether the deepest thinkers - those whose hand has been boldest in draw- ing aside the veil , and their eye keenest in fathoming the mysteries beyond it ...
... better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them , and whether the deepest thinkers - those whose hand has been boldest in draw- ing aside the veil , and their eye keenest in fathoming the mysteries beyond it ...
Page xxii
... better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social difficulties represent rather a dull discomfort in his life , which in course of time , and in combination with a good ...
... better satisfied than my heart . ' Still one may no doubt easily exaggerate this loneliness of Amiel's . His social difficulties represent rather a dull discomfort in his life , which in course of time , and in combination with a good ...
Page xxx
... better , and to soothe his suffering by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt himself sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of all those sheets of Journal ...
... better , and to soothe his suffering by a sympathy which would have been a mixture of pity and admiration . ' Was it that all the while Amiel felt himself sure of his revanche ? that he knew the value of all those sheets of Journal ...
Page xxxi
... better than withered leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these ...
... better than withered leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these ...
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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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