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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 14 : European travel. (1846 -1847 .) (search)
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XXII.
women's letters.
Would you desire, says De Quincey in his Essay on style, at this day to read our noble language in its native beauty, picturesque from idiomatic propriety, racy in its phraseology, delicate yet sinewy in its composition, -and-water, or perhaps one light say, Coleridge-and-air-full of cloudy glimpses and rich treasures half displayed.
Had De Quincey imitated the women's letters he described, his writings would have a longer lease of life.
And in the same spirit with er up and the terror that took her down; and it is by comparison with these that we find the Pyramid truly enormous.
De Quincey's own theory of the advantage enjoyed by women as letter-writers is somewhat different from this; he attributes their s ight write ill and affectedly, he thinks; but their letters are composed under the benefit of their natural advantages, De Quincey holds.
Yet he must remember that women, like men, or more than men, are influenced by current fashion; and letters, as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18 : Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January , 1839 , to March , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)