Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xvii
... death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the Introduction , and one may see in the sentences another in- stance of ...
... death , a book which will not die . For the secret of Amiel's malady is sublime , and the expres- sion of it wonderful . ' So ran one of the last paragraphs of the Introduction , and one may see in the sentences another in- stance of ...
Page xxi
... death of the writer . The words have a strong and melancholy inter- est for all who knew Mark Pattison ; and they certainly deserve a place in any attempt to estimate the impression already made on contemporary thought by the Journal ...
... death of the writer . The words have a strong and melancholy inter- est for all who knew Mark Pattison ; and they certainly deserve a place in any attempt to estimate the impression already made on contemporary thought by the Journal ...
Page xxvi
... death of the mother the little family was broken up , the boy passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood ...
... death of the mother the little family was broken up , the boy passing into the care of one relative , his two sisters into that of another . Certain notes in M. Scherer's possession throw a little light here and there upon a childhood ...
Page li
... death of Hegel and the break - up of the Hegelian idea into a num- ber of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German synthesis , of that tradi- เ tional , involuntary effort which the ...
... death of Hegel and the break - up of the Hegelian idea into a num- ber of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German synthesis , of that tradi- เ tional , involuntary effort which the ...
Page lxi
... death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was , in the first place , a few volumes of poems which had had no effect except on a small number of ...
... death all that this fine critic and profound thinker had given to the world , after a life entirely spent in the pursuit of letters , was , in the first place , a few volumes of poems which had had no effect except on a small number of ...
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