Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxx
... side of the oppo- nents of separation , and rejoiced in their victory . A large proportion of his poems deal with national subjects . He was one of the first members of L'Institut Gene- vois , ' founded in 1853 , and he took a warm ...
... side of the oppo- nents of separation , and rejoiced in their victory . A large proportion of his poems deal with national subjects . He was one of the first members of L'Institut Gene- vois , ' founded in 1853 , and he took a warm ...
Page lxxiii
... stress on , — for instance , his love for and popularity with children . In his poems , or at any rate in the earlier ones , this lighter side finds more expres- sion , proportionally , than in the Journal . In INTRODUCTION . lxxiii.
... stress on , — for instance , his love for and popularity with children . In his poems , or at any rate in the earlier ones , this lighter side finds more expres- sion , proportionally , than in the Journal . In INTRODUCTION . lxxiii.
Page lxxiv
... side by side with the Journal Intime , bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre pic- ture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the ...
... side by side with the Journal Intime , bring a certain gleam and sparkle into an otherwise sombre pic- ture . Amiel was never a master of poetical form ; his verse , compared to his prose , is tame and fettered : it never reaches the ...
Page 15
... sides appeared to me with a clear- ness relatively new . ( Same day . ) — The pensée - writer is to the philosopher what the dilettante is to the artist . He plays with thought , and makes it produce a crowd of pretty things of detail ...
... sides appeared to me with a clear- ness relatively new . ( Same day . ) — The pensée - writer is to the philosopher what the dilettante is to the artist . He plays with thought , and makes it produce a crowd of pretty things of detail ...
Page 18
... life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within , a common worship , towards the world out- side , kindness and beneficence ; educations to undertake , the thousand and one moral relations which 18 AMIELS JOURNAL .
... life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within , a common worship , towards the world out- side , kindness and beneficence ; educations to undertake , the thousand and one moral relations which 18 AMIELS JOURNAL .
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