 We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my whole nature tends to that impersonality...  Journal: The Journal Intime - Page 191by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...of confident effrontery is beyond me: my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respec:and subordinates itself to the object ; it is love of...an expression, of having used a word out of place, whik all the time I ought to have been thinking of essential^ and aiming at breadth of treatment. I... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...of it. We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always trembling lest we are doing it a wrong. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my...respects and subordinates itself to the object ; it ia love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding. This passionless impartiality of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1887 - 890 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding. The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1887 - 524 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...to the object ; it is love of truth which holds me buck from concluding and deciding." The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and... | |
 | 1887 - 564 pages
...must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. AVe must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own...which holds me back from concluding and deciding." The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding.' The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1891 - 378 pages
...materials and ideas. If we are to give anything a form, we must, so to speak, be the tyrants of it. 87 We must treat our subject brutally, and not be always...love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding.—And then I am always retracing my steps : instead of going forwards I work in a circle... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1899 - 420 pages
...working for some hours at my article on Mme. de Stagl, but with what labour, what painful effort ! When I write for publication every word is misery,...concluding and deciding. — And then I am always retracing rny steps : instead of going forwards I work in a circle : I am afraid of having forgotten a point,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding. The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 pages
...the tyrants of it. We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and...which holds me back from concluding and deciding.' The desire for the all, the impatience with what is partial and limited, the fascination of the infinite,... | |
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