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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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The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865

David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper - 1993 - 502 pages
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Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

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,...
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Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades

Ihab Hassan - 1995 - 296 pages
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Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism

Wesley T. Mott - 1996 - 328 pages
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Imagination, Understanding, and the Virtue of Liberality

David L. Norton - 1996 - 152 pages
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The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole

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...
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Why Are We Here?: Everyday Questions and the Christian Life

Ronald F. Thiemann, William C. Placher - 1998 - 180 pages
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A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

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...
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E.M. Forster: Passion and Prose

Arthur Martland - 1999 - 248 pages
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Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and ...

John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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