Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli: New York ; Europe ; HomewardR. Bentley, 1852 |
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... those only who were in her confidence ; but from the following slight sketches generous hearts can readily infer what was the quality of her home - affections . 66 Mother writes from Canton that my dear old grandmother 6 NEW YORK .
... those only who were in her confidence ; but from the following slight sketches generous hearts can readily infer what was the quality of her home - affections . 66 Mother writes from Canton that my dear old grandmother 6 NEW YORK .
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... heart by the fond and grateful love of this aged parent . " " We cannot be sufficiently grateful for our mother , so fair a blossom of the white amaranth ; truly to us a mother in this , that we can venerate her piety . Our relations to ...
... heart by the fond and grateful love of this aged parent . " " We cannot be sufficiently grateful for our mother , so fair a blossom of the white amaranth ; truly to us a mother in this , that we can venerate her piety . Our relations to ...
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... heart's - ease ; all sweet - scented flowers ! Moved by their beauty , I wrote a short note , to which this is the reply . Just like her- self ! * " I should not love my flowers if they did not put forth all the strength they have , in ...
... heart's - ease ; all sweet - scented flowers ! Moved by their beauty , I wrote a short note , to which this is the reply . Just like her- self ! * " I should not love my flowers if they did not put forth all the strength they have , in ...
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... heart opened to her , as to no earthly friend . " The characteristic trait of Margaret , to which all her talents and acquirements were subordinate , was sympathy , universal sympathy . She had that large intelligence and magnanimity ...
... heart opened to her , as to no earthly friend . " The characteristic trait of Margaret , to which all her talents and acquirements were subordinate , was sympathy , universal sympathy . She had that large intelligence and magnanimity ...
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... heart which I believe essential to feeling a real love , in all its force and purity , may be endangered by too care- less excursions into the realms of fancy . " " It is told us , we should pray , ' Lead us not into temptation ; ' and ...
... heart which I believe essential to feeling a real love , in all its force and purity , may be endangered by too care- less excursions into the realms of fancy . " " It is told us , we should pray , ' Lead us not into temptation ; ' and ...
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acquaintance American amid asked beautiful brothers called calm character child dark dear death desire English enjoy enter expression eyes fear feel felt Florence flowers force French friends gave give given hand happy hear heard heart hope influence interest Italian Italy keep kind knew known learned least leave less letter light live look Madame Margaret meet mind months morning mother mountains nature never night noble once Ossoli pain passed person picture present pure received remain rest Roman Rome seemed seen side society soon soul speak spirit strength suffered sure sweet sympathy talk things thought told true turn walk weeks winter wish woman women worthy write young
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Page 2 - 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 75 - 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 ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 75 - 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 2 - 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.
Page 1 - 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 97 - I was quite carried away with the rich flow of his discourse; and the hearty, noble earnestness of his personal being brought back the charm which once was upon his writing, before I wearied of it. I admired his Scotch, his way of singing his great, full sentences, so that each one was like the stanza of a narrative ballad.
Page 103 - He sings, rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced, now and then, to let fall a row.