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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 4 (search)
ence of mesmerism and its goblin brood, which have been rife in recent years. She had a feeling that she ought to have been a man, and said of herself, A man's ambition with a woman's heart, is an evil lot. In some verses which she wrote To the Moon, occur these lines:— But if I steadfast gaze upon thy face, A human secret, like my own, I trace; For, through the woman's smile looks the male eye. And she found something of true portraiture in a disagreeable novel of Balzac's, Le Livre Mystique, in which an equivocal figure exerts alternately a masculine and a feminine influence on the characters of the plot. Of all this nocturnal element in her nature she was very conscious, and was disposed, of course, to give it as fine names as it would carry, and to draw advantage from it. Attica, she said to a friend, is your province, Thessaly is mine: Attica produced the marble wonders of the great geniuses; but Thessaly is the land of magic. I have a great share of Ty