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<Author>Emerson, Ralph Waldo</Author>
<Title>English Traits</Title>
<Edition>Essays and Lectures. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1983</Edition>
<Date>1856</Date>
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Chapter I <i>First Visit to England</i>
<p>I have been twice in England. In 1833, on my
return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy, and France, I
crossed from Boulogne, and landed in London at the Tower
stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people
in the streets; and I remember the pleasure of that first
walk on English ground, with my companion, an American
artist, from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand,
to a house in Russell Square, whither we had been
recommended to good chambers. For the first time for many
months we were forced to check the saucy habit of
travellers' criticism, as we could no longer speak aloud in
the streets without being understoo . . .
