Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xxv
... were disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION .
... were disturbed , but no one looking back on the history of the Republic , and able to measure the strength of the Radical force in Europe after the fall of Charles X. , could have felt much doubt but that a few more years INTRODUCTION .
Page lvi
... strength year by year , until , like some strange mis- growth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the personality which had developed it . And the result is another soul's tragedy , another ...
... strength year by year , until , like some strange mis- growth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the personality which had developed it . And the result is another soul's tragedy , another ...
Page lxviii
... strength ! It will be useful to nobody , and even for myself it has rather helped me to shirk life than to practise it . ' And again : ' Is everything I have produced , taken together - my correspondence , these thousands of Journal ...
... strength ! It will be useful to nobody , and even for myself it has rather helped me to shirk life than to practise it . ' And again : ' Is everything I have produced , taken together - my correspondence , these thousands of Journal ...
Page 9
... strength and delicacy ; so full of sly intention for all its coldness , expressing at once inquisitiveness and indifference , abrupt , piecemeal , like notes thrown together haphazard , and yet deliberate . I AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... strength and delicacy ; so full of sly intention for all its coldness , expressing at once inquisitiveness and indifference , abrupt , piecemeal , like notes thrown together haphazard , and yet deliberate . I AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 17
... , thy leisure , thy strength , thy studies , thy talent , and thy works . Now and here is the hour of great hearts , the hour of hero- ism and of genius . ' " ― reverberates again What might be , What ought to AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 17.
... , thy leisure , thy strength , thy studies , thy talent , and thy works . Now and here is the hour of great hearts , the hour of hero- ism and of genius . ' " ― reverberates again What might be , What ought to AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 17.
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