Note 1093 — Chapter V · REVIVALS AND COMMENCEMENTS.
Reading edition
Nor can I recognise his description of Amiel’s treatment of a literary subject at p. xix of the Introduction—“Il l’embrasse, mais au dehors.” Alas! the Lucretian nequicquam comes in here again: but I should say that few men’s critical embraces were more intimate than Amiel’s, brief as they are.