DegenerationD. Appleton, 1895 - 566 pages |
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... brain , and also the nature of the mental disturbance expressing itself by them . Now I have undertaken the work of investigating ( as much as possible after your method ) the tendencies of the fashions in art and literature ; of ...
... brain , and also the nature of the mental disturbance expressing itself by them . Now I have undertaken the work of investigating ( as much as possible after your method ) the tendencies of the fashions in art and literature ; of ...
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... brain of a child or of a savage could form the clumsy idea that the century is a kind of living being , born like a beast or a man , passing through all the stages of existence , gradually ageing and declining after blooming childhood ...
... brain of a child or of a savage could form the clumsy idea that the century is a kind of living being , born like a beast or a man , passing through all the stages of existence , gradually ageing and declining after blooming childhood ...
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... brain and nervous system , degenerates are necessarily egoistical and impulsive . In these introductory remarks I would wish only to point out the stigma itself . Another mental stigma of degenerates is their emotionalism . Morel * has ...
... brain and nervous system , degenerates are necessarily egoistical and impulsive . In these introductory remarks I would wish only to point out the stigma itself . Another mental stigma of degenerates is their emotionalism . Morel * has ...
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... brain . He deceives himself into believing that he despises action from free determination , and takes pleasure in inactivity ; and , in order to justify himself in his own eyes , he constructs a philosophy of renunciation and of ...
... brain . He deceives himself into believing that he despises action from free determination , and takes pleasure in inactivity ; and , in order to justify himself in his own eyes , he constructs a philosophy of renunciation and of ...
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... brain - centres to produce semi - lucid , nebulously blurred ideas and inchoate embryonic thoughts , and to surrender himself to the perpetual obfuscation of a boundless , aimless , and shoreless stream of fugitive ideas ; and he rarely ...
... brain - centres to produce semi - lucid , nebulously blurred ideas and inchoate embryonic thoughts , and to surrender himself to the perpetual obfuscation of a boundless , aimless , and shoreless stream of fugitive ideas ; and he rarely ...
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activity æsthetic Alving appear arouse artistic association of ideas attention awaken Baudelaire beautiful become Bernick brain called Catulle Mendès cell centres character colour consciousness degenerate disease Doll's House echolalia ego-maniac Ellida emotion evil excited existence expression external world eyes fact French German give GREGERS healthy Hedda Hedda Gabler Hence HJALMAR human hysteria hysterical Ibsen idiots imbecile imitation impressions impulses individual insane instinct intellectual Joséphin Péladan live Lombroso Maleine mania marriage Maurice Barrès means megalomania mental mind moral movement mystic nature nerves nervous never Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nora novels observation organism Paris Parnassians Parsifal Paul Bourget peculiar perceive perception persons phenomena phenomenon Philistine piece poems poet poetry pre-Raphaelites presentations reader recognise representations Rosmer Rosmersholm says sense sexual society soul speak stimulus symbol Symbolists Théophile Gautier things thought tion Tolstoi true unconscious Wagner Wangel Werle whole wishes woman words Zola
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Page 89 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 89 - When round his head the aureole clings, And he is clothed in white, I'll take his hand and go with him To the deep wells of light; As unto a stream we will step down, And bathe there in God's sight.
Page 293 - Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent. Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies...
Page 99 - Of Margaret sitting glorious there, In glory of gold and glory of hair, And glory of glorious face most fair; — Ah!
Page 321 - Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? To whom, if not to them and their master, do we owe the lovely silver mists that brood over our river, and turn to faint forms of fading pace curved bridge and swaying barge?
Page 125 - Dans l'interminable Ennui de la plaine La neige incertaine Luit comme du sable. Le ciel est de cuivre Sans lueur aucune, On croirait voir vivre Et mourir la lune.
Page 89 - Out of the circling charm; Until her bosom must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. From the fixed place of Heaven she saw Time like a pulse shake fierce Through all the worlds.
Page 79 - Painting, or art generally, as such, with all its technicalities, difficulties, and particular ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
Page 384 - Are you not clear about your place in your own home? Have you not an infallible guide in questions like these? Have you not religion? NORA. Oh, Torvald, I don't really know what religion is.
Page 87 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, , And the stars in her hair were seven.