Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli: New York ; Europe ; HomewardR. Bentley, 1852 |
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... unison with the voices of Spring . May all that is manly , sincere , and pure , in your wishes , be real- ized ! Obliged to live myself without the sanc- tuary of the central relations , yet feeling I must 16 NEW YORK .
... unison with the voices of Spring . May all that is manly , sincere , and pure , in your wishes , be real- ized ! Obliged to live myself without the sanc- tuary of the central relations , yet feeling I must 16 NEW YORK .
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... wishes , never censure my whims , make no demands on me , and load me with gifts and uncomplaining service . Though sometimes forgetful of their claims , I try to make it up when we do meet , and I trust give little pain as I pass along ...
... wishes , never censure my whims , make no demands on me , and load me with gifts and uncomplaining service . Though sometimes forgetful of their claims , I try to make it up when we do meet , and I trust give little pain as I pass along ...
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... wish , dear —— , that I was not obliged to toil and spin , but could live , for a while , like the lilies . I wish so , too , for life has fatigued me , my strength is little , and the present state of my mind demands repose and ...
... wish , dear —— , that I was not obliged to toil and spin , but could live , for a while , like the lilies . I wish so , too , for life has fatigued me , my strength is little , and the present state of my mind demands repose and ...
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... wish that I should now take share in more public life . " THE HIGHLANDS . Seeking thus , at once , expansion and rest in new employments , Margaret determined , in the autumn of 1844 , to accept a liberal offer of Messrs . Greeley and ...
... wish that I should now take share in more public life . " THE HIGHLANDS . Seeking thus , at once , expansion and rest in new employments , Margaret determined , in the autumn of 1844 , to accept a liberal offer of Messrs . Greeley and ...
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... : From the brain of the purple mountain ' flows forth cheer to my somewhat weary mind . I feel refreshed amid these bolder shapes of nature . Mere gentle and winning landscapes are not enough . How I wish my birth 22 NEW YORK .
... : From the brain of the purple mountain ' flows forth cheer to my somewhat weary mind . I feel refreshed amid these bolder shapes of nature . Mere gentle and winning landscapes are not enough . How I wish my birth 22 NEW YORK .
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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.