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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 4 (search)
tenderness would come like a seraph's, and often an acknowledgment that she had been too harsh, and even a craving for pardon, with a humility, —which, perhaps, she had caught from the other. But her instinct was not humility,—that was always an afterthought. This arrogant tone of her conversation, if it came to be the subject of comment, of course, she defended, and with such broad good nature, and on grounds of simple truth, as were not easy to set aside. She quoted from Manzoni's Carmagnola, the lines:— Tolga il ciel che alcuno Piu altamente di me pensi ch'io stesso. God forbid that any one should conceive more highly of me than I myself. Meantime, the tone of her journals is humble, tearful, religious, and rises easily into prayer. I am obliged to an ingenious correspondent for the substance of the following account of this idiosyncrasy:— Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an art, and every person not merely as an artist, but as a wor