Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xiv
... possess either in- terest as thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the con- fidences of a solitary thinker , the ...
... possess either in- terest as thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the fulfil- ment of this desire . The reader will find in it , not a volume of Memoirs , but the con- fidences of a solitary thinker , the ...
Page lx
... possessed literary power of the highest order is abundantly proved by the Journal Intime . Knowledge , insight , eloquence , * M . Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of Inter national Law at the University of Brussels . critical power ...
... possessed literary power of the highest order is abundantly proved by the Journal Intime . Knowledge , insight , eloquence , * M . Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of Inter national Law at the University of Brussels . critical power ...
Page lxi
... possessed . He was a charming correspondent , and in spite of his passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the activities of the day - politics , religious organisations , literature , art was of ...
... possessed . He was a charming correspondent , and in spite of his passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the activities of the day - politics , religious organisations , literature , art was of ...
Page lxvii
... possess any general interest . But it is clear also that the Journal was not , in any sense , written for publication . These pages , ' say the Geneva editors , ' written au courant de la plume - sometimes in the morning , but more ...
... possess any general interest . But it is clear also that the Journal was not , in any sense , written for publication . These pages , ' say the Geneva editors , ' written au courant de la plume - sometimes in the morning , but more ...
Page lxxxi
... possesses in prose that indispensable magic which he lacks in poetry . His style , indeed , is by no means always in harmony with the central French tradition . Proba- bly a Frenchman will be inclined to apply Sainte - Beuve's remarks ...
... possesses in prose that indispensable magic which he lacks in poetry . His style , indeed , is by no means always in harmony with the central French tradition . Proba- bly a Frenchman will be inclined to apply Sainte - Beuve's remarks ...
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