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CHAPTER IV. Reflections on Travel. ? Environs of Leipsic. ? The
Battle-Ground. ? Monument to Poniatowski. ? Absence of Public
Amusements. ? Dresden.?The Gallery of Paintings. ? The Madonna of
Raf- faelle. ? Paintings of Correggio. ? Jewel Office or Treasury.
? Dresden Porcelain. ? General Moreau. ? The Environs of Dresden. ?
Style of Architecture. ? The King and Royal Family. ? Moral
Condition of Society. Having now satisfied our curiosity in
visiting the objects most worthy of interest in this city, we
summoned our carriage, and whirled ofF, at a rapid pace, on the
road to Berlin, indulging, as we rode along, in such reveries and
speculations, as a day thus spent would naturally tend to give
birth to. There is, in sooth, an intense excitement, little dreamed
of by the stationary, that the ardent traveller experiences when
finding himself for the first time upon a spot where were performed
the most illustrious acts that gild a celebrated name. Those
exploits, the bare perusal of which fired his youthful imagination
at the school or university, heightened now by the association of
scene, assail the mind with tenfold effect. The heated fancy lends
its magical illusion; and, ceasing to be a mere spectator, he
becomes, for the moment, identified with the hero of his
admiration. A warmer excitement thrills through each particular
vein and fibre; it passes, it is true, and, like all other
excitements, has its reaction; but even the very REMARKS ON
TRAVELLING. 45 melancholy that succeeds, weighs it not heavier in
the balance, than the vain follies the world terms pleasure ? It
has been said, that a man speaking seven or eight different
languages is equivalent to an equal number of men who are
acquainted with but one. May it not with similar propriety be
urged, that a ma...
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