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" At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical,... "
Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-romance Tradition - Page 12
by Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 285 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...41. Traveling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home 1 dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated...beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends,-embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...ruins. Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home 1 dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican and the palaces. 1 affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home, I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my truak, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and it last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Home, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness....sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I...
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