Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2 |
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Page xviii
... doubt , was not so much the critical appreciation of Amiel as the development of certain paradoxes which have been haunting various corners of M. Renan's mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given ...
... doubt , was not so much the critical appreciation of Amiel as the development of certain paradoxes which have been haunting various corners of M. Renan's mind for several years past , and to which it is to be hoped he has now given ...
Page xix
... doubts as to the legitimacy of rêverie ; ' il en a fait une œuvre qui restera . ' The same final judgment , accompanied by a very different series of comments , was pro- nounced on the Journal a year later by M. Paul Bourget , a young ...
... doubts as to the legitimacy of rêverie ; ' il en a fait une œuvre qui restera . ' The same final judgment , accompanied by a very different series of comments , was pro- nounced on the Journal a year later by M. Paul Bourget , a young ...
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 xxvi
... doubt but that a few more years would bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of political change . -- In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his ...
... doubt but that a few more years would bring Geneva also into the whirlpool of political change . -- In the same year - 1833 - that M. Rossi had left Geneva , Henri Frédéric Amiel , at twelve years old , was left orphaned of both his ...
Page xxxi
... doubt , of youth and fatuity in the passage ; one feels how much the vague sonorous phrases have pleased the writer's immature literary sense ; but there is something else too- there is a breath of that same speculative passion which ...
... doubt , of youth and fatuity in the passage ; one feels how much the vague sonorous phrases have pleased the writer's immature literary sense ; but there is something else too- there is a breath of that same speculative passion which ...
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