Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xxi
... light to this precious record of a unique experience . I say unique , but I can vouch that there is in existence at least one other soul which has lived through the same struggles , men- tal and moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic ...
... light to this precious record of a unique experience . I say unique , but I can vouch that there is in existence at least one other soul which has lived through the same struggles , men- tal and moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic ...
Page xxvi
... light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and forlorn . They show us a sensitive impressionable boy , of health rather delicate than robust , already disposed to a more or less ...
... light here and there upon a childhood and youth which must necessarily have been a little bare and forlorn . They show us a sensitive impressionable boy , of health rather delicate than robust , already disposed to a more or less ...
Page xxxix
... lights on old paths , and stirred in him such capacities of fresh and individual expression . 6 We have been carried forward , however , a little too far by this general discussion of Amiel's debts to Germany . Let us take - 6 up the ...
... lights on old paths , and stirred in him such capacities of fresh and individual expression . 6 We have been carried forward , however , a little too far by this general discussion of Amiel's debts to Germany . Let us take - 6 up the ...
Page lvi
... light on the mysterious capacities of human nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into ...
... light on the mysterious capacities of human nature , and warns us , as the letters of Obermann in their day warned the gen- eration of George Sand , that with the rise of new intellectual perceptions new spiritual dangers come into ...
Page lxxxv
... light on the genesis and progress of the great forces which are moulding and renovating the thought of the present - it tells us nothing for the future . - - No , there is much more in the Journal Intime than the imagination or the ...
... light on the genesis and progress of the great forces which are moulding and renovating the thought of the present - it tells us nothing for the future . - - No , there is much more in the Journal Intime than the imagination or the ...
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