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 156edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
| Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett - 1995 - 356 pages
...Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journies the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated...sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside one is the stern Fact, the sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican,... | |
| Ihab Hassan - 1995 - 296 pages
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| Wesley T. Mott - 1996 - 328 pages
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| David L. Norton - 1996 - 152 pages
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| Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
...prospect of what remained for him to do. Remembering his European tour in "Self-Reliance," he wrote: "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the...sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from . . . My giant goes with me wherever I go" (CW2:46). The giant questions of what to do, and how to... | |
| Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...paradise? "We owe to our first journeys," writes Emerson, "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... | |
| Arthur Martland - 1999 - 248 pages
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| John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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