Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xviii
... truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern cult- ure , and also a striking picture of the suf- ferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two xviii ...
... truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern cult- ure , and also a striking picture of the suf- ferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two xviii ...
Page xxi
... truth of this , as it applies to my- self ! - ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I can- not suppose that so peculiar a psychological revelation will enjoy ...
... truth of this , as it applies to my- self ! - ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I can- not suppose that so peculiar a psychological revelation will enjoy ...
Page xlv
... truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and ...
... truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and ...
Page liv
... truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how ...
... truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how ...
Page lxiii
... truth some barrier of sense and matter - to give up the real for the apparent , the substance for the shadow ? One is reminded of Clough's cry under a somewhat similar experience : ' If this pure solace should desert my mind , What were ...
... truth some barrier of sense and matter - to give up the real for the apparent , the substance for the shadow ? One is reminded of Clough's cry under a somewhat similar experience : ' If this pure solace should desert my mind , What were ...
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