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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,... "
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 156
edited by - 1848
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 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...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...foreign cities, any more than of ancient nations, overawe or oppress him. Of travelling, he says, " I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation...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
...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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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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....I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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 intoxicated...I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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