Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lix
... passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework — what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put ...
... passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework — what the Germans call a Schematismus . The skele- ton was admirably put ...
Page lxi
... passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the activities of the day - politics , religious organisations , literature , art - was of the keenest kind . And yet at the time of his death all that this ...
... passion for abstract thought , his intellectual interest , at any rate , in all the activities of the day - politics , religious organisations , literature , art - was of the keenest kind . And yet at the time of his death all that this ...
Page lxxvii
... passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to ...
... passion , that straining hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul- -they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself , his conscious farewell to ...
Page lxxxiii
... passionate feeling . Amiel in- deed has neither the continuous romantic beauty nor the rich descriptive wealth of Senancour . The Dent de Midi , with its untrodden solitude , its primeval silences and its hovering eagles , the Swiss ...
... passionate feeling . Amiel in- deed has neither the continuous romantic beauty nor the rich descriptive wealth of Senancour . The Dent de Midi , with its untrodden solitude , its primeval silences and its hovering eagles , the Swiss ...
Page lxxxv
... passion which breathes in his letters and journal , has a strange savour , a force and flame which is all his own . Beside his actual sense of community with the visible world , Amiel's love of land- scape has a tame , didactic air ...
... passion which breathes in his letters and journal , has a strange savour , a force and flame which is all his own . Beside his actual sense of community with the visible world , Amiel's love of land- scape has a tame , didactic air ...
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