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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
allic work as affording him a field for important original activity. In short, his profession had now fully opened to his mind as a career. But it was not in Lowell's nature to remain conquered by disappointment, still less to give any outward indication of depression of feeling. In his letters he speaks of himself constantly as the fool of fortune, a favorite of the lady with the wheel. I do not entirely understand what you mean by preternatural fears, he writes from Gibraltar in May, 1856. I have been fussy and fidgetty, and have perhaps been unnecessarily careful about exposure; but as to fear about myself, why, as Emerson somewhere says, I sail with God the seas. My only fear now is that which drove the tyrant of Samos to throw his ring into the sea. I am frightened and oppressed by the terrible good fortune which has always attended me, by the kindnesses which I have done nothing to earn and which I can never repay. . . . . For Heaven's sake, don't feel anxious about my