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Page xviii
... 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 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... 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 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page xix
... effect of Amiel's mental story , he showed himself fully conscious of the rare and delicate qualities of the new writer . ' La rêverie a réussi a notre auteur , ' he says , a little reluctantly - for M. Caro has his doubts as to the ...
... effect of Amiel's mental story , he showed himself fully conscious of the rare and delicate qualities of the new writer . ' La rêverie a réussi a notre auteur , ' he says , a little reluctantly - for M. Caro has his doubts as to the ...
Page xxvii
... effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says ...
... effect produced in Geneva by M. Pictet's Lectures on Esthetics in 1840 - the first ever deliv- ered in a town in which the Beautiful had been for centuries regarded as the rival and enemy of the True . ' He who is now writ- ing , ' says ...
Page xxxix
... effect upon his thought and tem- perament goes far to explain the interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it is ...
... effect upon his thought and tem- perament goes far to explain the interest and suggestiveness of his mental history . The language he speaks is the language of that French criticism which we have Sainte - Beuve's authority for it is ...
Page xlii
... effect , in- deed , was of something brilliant and strik- ing . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own . ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
... effect , in- deed , was of something brilliant and strik- ing . In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror ; one would have said the future was all his own . ' His return , moreover , was marked by a ...
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