810 TRAVELING TRAVELING
Follow the Romany Patteran
Sheer to the Austral light,
Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,
Sweeping the sea floors white.
Kipling—The Gypsy Trail.
Down to Gehenna or up to the throne.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Kipling—The Winners.
The marquise has a disagreeable day for her
journey.
Louis XV.—While Looking at Mme. de
Pompadour's Funeral.
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| text = Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.
Joaquin Miller—Pace Implora.,
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
Quarles—Divine Emblems. Bk. II. II.
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Qui veut voyager loin menage sa monture.
He who will travel far spares his steed.
Racine—Plaideurs. I. 1.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
Christina Rossetti—Up-Hill.
Zahlt der Pilger Meilen,
Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt?
Does the pilgrim count the miles
When he travels to some distant shrine?
Schiller—Wallenstein's Tod. IV. 11.
Nusquam est, qui ubique est.
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
Seneca—Epistolae Ad Lucilium. II.
When I was at home, I was in a better place;
but travellers must be content.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 17.
And in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 38.
- * * The sundry contemplation of my
travels, in which my often rumination wraps
me in a most humorous sadness.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 17.
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp
and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits
of your own country.
As You Like It. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 33.
Travell'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.
Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 19.
I spake of most disastr'us chances,
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Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence
And portance in my travellers' history;
Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads
touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak—such was the process;—
And of the cannibals that each other eat.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 134.
I think it was Jekyll who used to say that
the further he went west, the more convinced
he felt that the wise men came from the east.
SydneySmith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I.
'Tis nothing when a fancied scene's in view
To skip from Covent Garden to Peru.
Steele—Prologue to Ambrose Phillip's Distressed Mother.
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Beersheba and cry, " 'Tis all barren! "
Sterne—Sentimental Journey. In the Street.
Calais.
When we have discovered a continent, or
crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find
another ocean or another plain upon the further
side . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon,
soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on
some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way
further, against the setting sun, descry the spires
of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own
blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labour.
Stevenson—El Dorado.
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays,
because I shall have the prayers of the church
to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue II.
’Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes
I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.
John Taylor—Wandering to see the Wonders
of the West.
<poem>Let observation with extended observation
observe extensively. Tennyson, paraphrasing Johnson. SeeLocKer-Lampson's Recollections of a tour with Tennyson, in Memoirs of Tennyson by his son. II. 73. See also Criticism by Byron in his Diary, Jan. 9, 1821.
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
Goldsmith's paraphrase. Caroline Spurgeon—Works of Dr. Johnson. (1898) De Quincey quotes it from some writer, according to Dr. Birkbeck Hill—Boswell. I. 194. Coleridge quotes it, Lecture VI, on Shakespeare and Milton.
