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- Author: James Huneker
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1515032728
- ISBN-13: 9781515032724
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The fanciful notion that psychical delicacy is accompanied by a corresponding physical exterior should have received a death-blow in the presence of Henry Beyle, better known as Stendhal. Chopin, Shelley, Byron and Cardinal Newman did not in personal appearance contradict their verse, prose and music; but Stendhal, possessing an exquisite sensibility, was, as Hector Berlioz cruelly wrote in his Memoirs: "A little pot-bellied man with a spiteful smile, who tried to look grave." Sainte-Beuve is more explicit. "Physically his figure, though not short, soon grew thick-set and heavy, his neck short and full-blooded.
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- Author: James Huneker
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1515032728
- ISBN-13: 9781515032724
- Format: 18.9 x 24.6 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The fanciful notion that psychical delicacy is accompanied by a corresponding physical exterior should have received a death-blow in the presence of Henry Beyle, better known as Stendhal. Chopin, Shelley, Byron and Cardinal Newman did not in personal appearance contradict their verse, prose and music; but Stendhal, possessing an exquisite sensibility, was, as Hector Berlioz cruelly wrote in his Memoirs: "A little pot-bellied man with a spiteful smile, who tried to look grave." Sainte-Beuve is more explicit. "Physically his figure, though not short, soon grew thick-set and heavy, his neck short and full-blooded.
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