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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
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...that 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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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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...that 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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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream 30 that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with...unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican0 and the palaces affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but am not intoxicated....
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English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: A Connected Representation of ...

George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 pages
...similar to his friend Emerson's: "Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places ... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from." . . . "The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home." ("Self-Reliance.") FROM CANTO FIRST 39....
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...Traveling 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...that 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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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I n, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit — -an effect I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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...fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that. | fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions,...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, Volume 2

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first 30 journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated...pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea 35 and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting,...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover o us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose ny sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark in the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and...
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All These

Paul Revere Frothingham - 1927 - 342 pages
...know, agreed with him: "Travelling," he says, in speaking of self-reliance, "is a fool's paradise. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the...that 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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