 ... honesty, and duty. It is an affectation, and because it is an affectation the school is struck with sterility. The reader desires in the poet something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse ; he looks to find in him a painter of life,...  Journal: The Journal Intime - Page 244by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse ; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience,...forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living—something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse ; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience,...The reward is the giving birth to something living — someX thing, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed... | |
 | American fiction - 1923 - 574 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance." The foregoing criticism has been chosen, despite its harshness, because of the fact that even Amiel,... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - French essays - 1896 - 426 pages
...urns what is there ? — ashes. Their work lacks feeling, seriousness, sincerity, and pathos—.in a word, soul and moral life. I cannot bring myself...forth. The reward is the giving birth to something living—'something, that is to say, which, by a kind of magic, makes a living unity out of such opposed... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 456 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance. The true critic strives for a clear vision of things as they are — for justice and fairness ; his... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 654 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse ; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance. The true critic strives for a clear vision of things as they are — for justice and fairness ; his... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance. 35 How much folly is compatible with ultimate wisdom and prudence? It is difficult to say. The cleverest... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance. J5 How much folly is compatible with ultimate wisdom and prudence? It is difficult to say. The cleverest... | |
 | Barry Cerf - Novelists, French - 1926 - 328 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance.1 Not all of us will share the repugnance which Alexandrian excellence arouses in simple... | |
 | Gustave Leopold Van Roosbroeck, Joseph Warren Beach - French poetry - 1927 - 148 pages
...something better than a juggler in rhyme, or a conjurer in verse; he looks to find in him a painter of life, a being who thinks, loves, and has a conscience, who feels passion and repentance." (Journal Intime.) This quest for a definition, limited as it is, has only shown that there exists among... | |
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