 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,...  History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 74by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett - 1995 - 356 pages
...my trunk, embrace my 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,...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... | |
 | David L. Norton - 1996 - 148 pages
...described by Emerson: "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, that I fled from."i5 But by the imaginative actualization of other possibilities ^yithin ourselves, we have the... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ed Douglas - 2001 - 1016 pages
...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, that I fled from. From Stlf-Rtliancc by Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting here had taken three hard, long days. I sat on a... | |
 | Ed Douglas - 2001 - 1016 pages
...and lose my sadness. l 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, that l fled from. From Se1f-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Getting here had taken three hard, long days.... | |
 | Rupert Christiansen - 2002 - 298 pages
...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, that I fled from.' What matters is not where you are, but who you are: 'Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...and Jose 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...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... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 308 pages
...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, that I fled from. . . . My giant goes with me wherever I go." 13 To travel is to place distance between oneself and one's... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 2007 - 351 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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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