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Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1823-1835
Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson With Annotations 18231835 Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson JOURNALS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON WITH ANNOTATIONS EDITED BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON AND WALDO EMERSON -- 1910, -- BY EDWARD WALDO EMERSON - CONTENTS YOTAGE TO EUROPE RETURN JOURNAL XXIV 1833 From Pocket Note-book The Brig Jasper American seamen. Berth meditations. The hospitable universe. Wind and calm. Passen- gers nautical glory. Goldoni. Royal Eo... more »lus. Verses. The passenger-species. Sailors Colurnbus. Stars. Azores. Be yourself. Memory. Old Europe. The mate. English vessels. Always hope. Captain and scholar. Inward music. The Straits. Capable men. Quarantine at Malta. Self-testing. St. Johns at Va- letta. The English chapel. Missionary press. Ball at the Governors. Dr. Davy. Embarks for Sicily. Absurd crew. Syracuse its sights. Mule-ride to Ca- tania its churches and museums. The opera. Ride to Messina kindly companions. Taormina. Sails to Palermo sights there. Thoughts on the opera . . 3-6 I Naples. Be not overawed by new surroundings. Thank your safeguards. Verses. The Museum The counte- nances of the first-born. Virgils tomb. The worth- less people. Avernus. By stage to Rome. Verses. First wanderings. The Vatican galleries. The Trans- figuration. Churches. Thorwaldsen. The Pope blesses the palms. The Sistine Chapel. Artists studios. The Miserere twice heard. St. Peters Moonlight walk with Cranch and Alexander. The Jew baptized. Easter mass in St. Peters. Walk with American artists. The Vatican splendors. Churches, pictures, gardens. Street singers and caffes. Expedition to Tivoli and Villa dEste. Capitoline 66The Gladi- ator and Byron. Taking the veil. The Moses of Michel Angelo. Letter to Miss Mary Emerson dis- appointment in art and splendor longing for persons, for a teacher. The fault in ones self. The gift of Rome . . . . . . . . . . . .61-103 Journey northward by iettura companions. Umbrian towns. Tuscany. Lake Thrasimenus. Florence Du- omo Santa Croce, homage to Galileo and Michel Angelo. The Uffizzi, the. Marble Lady. Byrons rooms. Evening ramble. Death of Ellens mother. Jerome Bonaparte. Galleries. Amici and his micro- scopes. Opera, prima donna and ballet. Unking ones self to see. The Misericordia. Dantes seat. Landor at his Villa. Ascension. Landors pictures talk with him. Natural History Museum. Santa Croce again. Erminia the flower-girl. Opera Ivanboe. Italian su- perlatives. Twilight and morning walks. I Promersi Sposi. San Zenobio. Santa Croce yet again. Hold your own opinion. Obligations to society. Leaving Florence. Statue of Father Apennine. Bologna. Fer. rara Tasso, Ariosto, Byron, Jews. Valley of the PO. Petrarchs house and tomb. Padua. Venice. Mood of humiliation. Venetian pictures, churches Canova. The palace and arsenal. Disappointment. Vicenza Verona Brescia, the people. Milan, the cathedra1 and sights, good houses. Thoughts on architecture as imitation . . . . . . . . . . I 04-1 46 The Diligence for Paris pleasant companions. Domo d Ossola. The Simplon Napoleon. A taste of Swit- zerland, Vevay, Lausanne. Gibbons house, Geneva. Ferney and Voltaire under protest. Introduction to scholars and clergy. France. Entrance to Paris. Henri Quatre with tricolor. Hotel Montmorenci. Paris seems too modern. A cousin. The Sorbonne. The Louvre, Leonardo. Street sights. Out of place in Paris. Fourth of July dinner. External life reflec- tions call to teach religion, not of tradition, but of the soul. St. Charles Borromeo. Dont be morbid. Visit to Jardin des Plantes, its riches reflections strange sympathies arise cc Striving to be man. Jussieu. PGre la Chaise grave of the lover of Montaigne. Attractions and privileges of Paris Opera ThGtre Franqais, Madame Mars. Abbe Chatel Eglise Catho- lique Franaise. Frascatis. Biot, Arago, Gay Lus- sac, Jouffroy. Sails from Boulogne . . . . 146-1 7 I England. Landing in London...« less