Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli ...Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 347 pages |
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... hand , strong common - sense saved her from becoming visionary , while she was too well- read as a scholar to be caught by conceits , and had been too sternly tried by sorrow to fall into fanciful effeminacy . It was a pleasing surprise ...
... hand , strong common - sense saved her from becoming visionary , while she was too well- read as a scholar to be caught by conceits , and had been too sternly tried by sorrow to fall into fanciful effeminacy . It was a pleasing surprise ...
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... hand , she reproduced a truth , whose germ had just been imbibed from others , moulded after her own image and quick- ened by her own life , with marvellous rapidity . And the presence of congenial minds so stimulated the pro- lific ...
... hand , she reproduced a truth , whose germ had just been imbibed from others , moulded after her own image and quick- ened by her own life , with marvellous rapidity . And the presence of congenial minds so stimulated the pro- lific ...
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... hand a vase of flowers , which she had been gathering in the garden . After exchange of greetings , her first words were of the flowers , each of which was symbolic to her of emotion , and associated with the memory of some friend ...
... hand a vase of flowers , which she had been gathering in the garden . After exchange of greetings , her first words were of the flowers , each of which was symbolic to her of emotion , and associated with the memory of some friend ...
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... hand did fling Dew on the earth , as if she were the dawn , And the invisible rain did ever sing A silver music on the mossy lawn . " Yet more and more distinctly did I catch a plaintive tone of sorrow in her thought and speech , like ...
... hand did fling Dew on the earth , as if she were the dawn , And the invisible rain did ever sing A silver music on the mossy lawn . " Yet more and more distinctly did I catch a plaintive tone of sorrow in her thought and speech , like ...
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... hand of truth and honor all unstained , as they ride . ' forth on their chosen path to test the spirit of high ' emprise , and free the world from wrong , ' again for unexpected succor in the hour of peril , or ' in joyful surprise to ...
... hand of truth and honor all unstained , as they ride . ' forth on their chosen path to test the spirit of high ' emprise , and free the world from wrong , ' again for unexpected succor in the hour of peril , or ' in joyful surprise to ...
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Page 102 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 102 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 68 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us; because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Page 153 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 98 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 153 - I go to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time!
Page 101 - He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Page 101 - How much, preventing God, how much I owe To the defences thou hast round me set ; Example, custom, fear, occasion slow, — These scorned bondmen were my parapet. I dare not peep over this parapet To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had descended, Had not these me against myself defended.