Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xxii
... duty to the editor to assure him that there are persons in the world whose souls respond , in the depths of their inmost nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much ...
... duty to the editor to assure him that there are persons in the world whose souls respond , in the depths of their inmost nature , to the cry of anguish which makes itself heard in the pages of these remarkable confessions . ' So much ...
Page lix
... duty . But with all the critical and philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , 6 the study of literature , and the study of ...
... duty . But with all the critical and philosophical power which , as we know from the Journal , he might have lavished on his teaching , had the conditions been other than they were , 6 the study of literature , and the study of ...
Page lxv
... duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after reso- lution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him to write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . In 1861 , a year after ...
... duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes resolution after reso- lution to shake himself free from the mental tradition which had taken such hold upon him to write , to produce , to satisfy his friends . In 1861 , a year after ...
Page lxxxvii
... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own ' prison - cell , ' or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own ' prison - cell , ' or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
Page lxxxviii
... duty are the foundation of existence . Here , indeed , we come to the innermost secret of Amiel's charm , the fact which probably goes farther than any other to explain his fascination for a large and growing class of readers . For ...
... duty are the foundation of existence . Here , indeed , we come to the innermost secret of Amiel's charm , the fact which probably goes farther than any other to explain his fascination for a large and growing class of readers . For ...
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