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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 34
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 46 pages
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Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett - 1995 - 356 pages
...friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside one is the stern Fact, the sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. But the rage for travelb'ng is only a symptom of a deeper unsoundness, affecting the whole intellectual...
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A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 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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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I arn not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. 3. But the rage of travelling is itself only...
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Motivational Classics

Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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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Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today

Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2007 - 351 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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McGraw-Hill's PRAXIS I and II, 2nd Ed.

Laurie Rozakis - 2007 - 434 pages
...travel, we can never escape from ourselves. You can see this especially in the last two sentences: "I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions,...intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go." Choice A is wrong because it is the opposite of the writer's theme. The same is true of choice D. There...
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Sixty Days and Counting

Kim Stanley Robinson - 2007 - 562 pages
...my ftiends, emhark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there heside me is the stem fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled...from. I seek the Vatican and the palaces. I affect to he intoxicated with sights and suggestions, hut I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...intoxieated with sights and suggestions; but I am not intoxieated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. But the rage of travelling is itself only a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affeeting the whole intelleetual aetion. The intelleet is vagabond, and the universal system of edueation...
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