Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxxvii
... perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by the spectacle of Berlin and its imposing intellectual activities . ' As to his literary talent , ' says M. Scherer , after ...
... perhaps too long in Germany ; he had drunk too deeply of German thought ; he had been too much dazzled by the spectacle of Berlin and its imposing intellectual activities . ' As to his literary talent , ' says M. Scherer , after ...
Page xxxviii
... perhaps of some habits of thought which he afterwards felt the need of checking and correcting . ' This is very true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts to write German in French , ' and there are in his ...
... perhaps of some habits of thought which he afterwards felt the need of checking and correcting . ' This is very true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts to write German in French , ' and there are in his ...
Page xlv
... perhaps more than the ordinary craving of youth for sympathy and for affection . In a great city , contain- ing within it a number of different circles of life , Amiel would easily have found his own circle , nor could political ...
... perhaps more than the ordinary craving of youth for sympathy and for affection . In a great city , contain- ing within it a number of different circles of life , Amiel would easily have found his own circle , nor could political ...
Page lxxviii
... The two essays on Madame de Staël and Rousseau contain much fine critical remark , and might find a place perhaps as an appendix to some future edition of the Journal ; and some of the Pensées , pub- lished 1xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... The two essays on Madame de Staël and Rousseau contain much fine critical remark , and might find a place perhaps as an appendix to some future edition of the Journal ; and some of the Pensées , pub- lished 1xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 71
... perhaps the one who makes us think most , is still lacking in . Less reflexivity and more plasticity the eye more on the object would raise the style of Vinet , so rich in substance , so nervous , so full of ideas and variety , into a ...
... perhaps the one who makes us think most , is still lacking in . Less reflexivity and more plasticity the eye more on the object would raise the style of Vinet , so rich in substance , so nervous , so full of ideas and variety , into a ...
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