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Page ix
... effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes may certainly be ...
... effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes may certainly be ...
Page x
... effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which ...
... effect produced by Amiel's thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which ...
Page xiii
... effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever delivered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writing , ' says ...
... effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever delivered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writing , ' says ...
Page xviii
... effect upon his thought and tempera- ment goes far to explain the interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which — we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it— is ...
... effect upon his thought and tempera- ment goes far to explain the interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which — we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it— is ...
Page xix
... effect , indeed , was of something bril- liant and striking . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own , ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
... effect , indeed , was of something bril- liant and striking . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own , ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
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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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