Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli ...Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 347 pages |
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... known her ! We had met chiefly as scholars . But now I saw before me one whose whole life had been a poem , — of boundless aspiration and hope almost wild in its daring , of indomitable effort amidst poignant disappointment , ―of widest ...
... known her ! We had met chiefly as scholars . But now I saw before me one whose whole life had been a poem , — of boundless aspiration and hope almost wild in its daring , of indomitable effort amidst poignant disappointment , ―of widest ...
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... known the growth of his character so intimately . I ' called to mind a letter he had written me of what we ' had expected of our fathers . The ideal father , the pro- ' foundly wise , provident , divinely tender and benign , he ' is ...
... known the growth of his character so intimately . I ' called to mind a letter he had written me of what we ' had expected of our fathers . The ideal father , the pro- ' foundly wise , provident , divinely tender and benign , he ' is ...
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... known before . ' * * ' I went to see Mrs. Wood in the Somnambula . Nothing ' could spoil this opera , which expresses an ecstasy , a ' trance of feeling , better than anything I ever heard . I ' have loved every melody in it for years ...
... known before . ' * * ' I went to see Mrs. Wood in the Somnambula . Nothing ' could spoil this opera , which expresses an ecstasy , a ' trance of feeling , better than anything I ever heard . I ' have loved every melody in it for years ...
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... known in his breast , ' whatever guise they might assume . เ " The sea is not always lovely and bounteous , though ' generally , since we have been here , she has beamed her ' bluest . The night of the full moon we staid out on the ...
... known in his breast , ' whatever guise they might assume . เ " The sea is not always lovely and bounteous , though ' generally , since we have been here , she has beamed her ' bluest . The night of the full moon we staid out on the ...
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... known , - ' came with me the questioning season . I was greatly ' disappointed in my relation to him . I was , indeed , ' always called on to be worthy , — this benefit was sure ' in our friendship . But I found no intelligence of my ...
... known , - ' came with me the questioning season . I was greatly ' disappointed in my relation to him . I was , indeed , ' always called on to be worthy , — this benefit was sure ' in our friendship . But I found no intelligence of my ...
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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.