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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,... "
So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance - Page 36
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pages
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...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, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action....
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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
...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, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action....
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...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, that I fled...giant goes with me wherever I go. 3. But the rage of traveling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action. The intellect...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that. | fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. /^j 3. But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper ymsoundness affecting the whole intellectual...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, Volume 2

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...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, identical, that I fled...palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and 40 suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. 3. But the rage of traveling...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...wake up in Naples, and there beside ne is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that fled from. I seek the Vatican and the palaces. I affect to e intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not inoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever...
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All These

Paul Revere Frothingham - 1927 - 342 pages
...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, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go." So there are other similarities which are too numerous to name. We remember Emerson's verses: Yon ridge...
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: First Series. Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...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, that I fled...me wherever I go. 3. But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond,...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15): Nature; Addresses, and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...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, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. V But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual...
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Writing and Reading Differently: Deconstruction and the Teaching of ...

George Douglas Atkins, Michael L. Johnson - 1985 - 240 pages
...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, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go." Emerson is urging us to self-reliance; yet the more we read him, the more he is the giant, seductive...
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