Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xxxv
... inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century and all its ways . ' German systems , German hypotheses , be- liefs , and poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
... inaugurated in France by Madame de Staël as the natural result of reaction from the eighteenth century and all its ways . ' German systems , German hypotheses , be- liefs , and poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as INTRODUCTION . XXXV.
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... poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as a cure for hearts crushed by the mock- ery of Candide and the materialism of the Revolution . . . . Under the Restoration France continued to study German philoso- phy and poetry with profound ...
... poetry , all were eagerly welcomed as a cure for hearts crushed by the mock- ery of Candide and the materialism of the Revolution . . . . Under the Restoration France continued to study German philoso- phy and poetry with profound ...
Page lvi
... , in the case of a nature like Amiel's , there is so much high poetry thrown off from the long process of conflict , the power of vision and of reproduction which the intellect gains at the expense of the rest lvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... , in the case of a nature like Amiel's , there is so much high poetry thrown off from the long process of conflict , the power of vision and of reproduction which the intellect gains at the expense of the rest lvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lix
... poetry , capable of illumi- nating the most difficult and abstract of sub- jects , becomes in the lecture - room a dry compendium of universal knowledge . ' Led by his passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his ...
... poetry , capable of illumi- nating the most difficult and abstract of sub- jects , becomes in the lecture - room a dry compendium of universal knowledge . ' Led by his passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his ...
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... poet rather than of a student , and makes one understand certain other little points which his friends lay stress on , - for instance , his love for and popularity with children . 1 In his poems , or at any rate in the earlier ones ...
... poet rather than of a student , and makes one understand certain other little points which his friends lay stress on , - for instance , his love for and popularity with children . 1 In his poems , or at any rate in the earlier ones ...
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