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Page xxii
... ideas , the free play of fancy and of gaiety . Amiel was not one of the original mem- bers of these Thursday parties ; but whenever he joined us we regarded it as a fête - day . In serious discussion he was a master of the unexpected ...
... ideas , the free play of fancy and of gaiety . Amiel was not one of the original mem- bers of these Thursday parties ; but whenever he joined us we regarded it as a fête - day . In serious discussion he was a master of the unexpected ...
Page xxiii
... ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It ... idea into a number of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German ...
... ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It ... idea into a number of different and conflicting sections of philosophical opinion . He was under the spell of German ...
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... ideas intoxicate me sometimes . ' But in vain . ' Reality , the present , the irreparable , the necessary , repel and even terrify me . I have too much imagination , conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of ...
... ideas intoxicate me sometimes . ' But in vain . ' Reality , the present , the irreparable , the necessary , repel and even terrify me . I have too much imagination , conscience , and penetration , and not enough character . The life of ...
Page xxx
... the day , without any idea of composition or publicity - are marked by the repetition , the lacunæ , the carelessness , inherent in this kind of monologue . The thoughts and sentiments expressed have no other XXX AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... the day , without any idea of composition or publicity - are marked by the repetition , the lacunæ , the carelessness , inherent in this kind of monologue . The thoughts and sentiments expressed have no other XXX AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
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... idea in our sense is almost absent ; so that while Amiel represents the modern mind at its keenest and best , dealing at will with the vast additions to knowledge which the last fifty years have brought forth , Senancour is still in the ...
... idea in our sense is almost absent ; so that while Amiel represents the modern mind at its keenest and best , dealing at will with the vast additions to knowledge which the last fifty years have brought forth , Senancour is still in the ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
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