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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), V. Conversations in Boston. (search)
the interpretations. This Bacchus was found in Scripture. The Indian Bacchus is glowing; he is the genial apprehensive power; the glow of existence; mere joy. Venus was Grecian womanhood, instinctive; Diana, chastity; Mars, Grecian manhood, instinctive. Venus made the name for a conversation on Beauty, which was extended thrVenus made the name for a conversation on Beauty, which was extended through four meetings, as it brought in irresistibly the related topics of poetry, genius, and taste. Neptune was Circumstance; Pluto, the Abyss, the Undeveloped; Pan, the glow and sportiveness and music of Nature; Ceres, the productive power of Nature; Proserpine, the Phenomenon. Under the head of Venus, in the fifth conversationVenus, in the fifth conversation, the story of Cupid and Psyche was told with fitting beauty, by Margaret; and many fine conjectural interpretations suggested from all parts of the room. The ninth conversation turned on the distinctive qualities of poetry, discriminating it from the other fine arts. Rhythm and Imagery, it was agreed, were distinctive. An episo
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), chapter 11 (search)
so ill, I can do but little. to C. S. Rome, Jan. 12, 1848.—My time in Lombardy and Switzerland was a series of beautiful pictures, dramatic episodes, not without some original life in myself. When I wrote to you from Como, I had a peaceful season. I floated on the lake with my graceful Polish countess, hearing her stories of heroic Sorrow; or I walked in the delicious gardens of the villas, with many another summer friend. Red banners floated, children sang and shouted, the lakes of Venus and Diana glittered in the sun. The pretty girls of Bellaggio, with their coral necklaces, brought flowers to the American countess, and hoped she would be as happy as she deserved. Whether this cautious wish is fulfilled, I know not, but certainly I left all the glitter of life behind at Como. My days at Milan were not unmarked. I have known some happy hours, but they all lead to sorrow; and not only the cups of wine, but of milk, seem drugged with poison for me. It does not seem to be
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XXVIII (search)
uct. In this respect we are not confronted by a theory, but by a condition. The supremacy of the Greek in sculpture is not more unequivocal than in literature; and the two arts had this in common, that the very language of that race had the texture of marble. To treat this supremacy as something accidental, like the long theologic sway of the Hebrew and Chaldee, is to look away from a world-literature. It is as if an ambitious sculptor were to decide to improve his studio by throwing his Venus of Milo upon the ash-heap. There is no accident about art: what is great is great, and the best cannot be permanently obscured by the second best. At the recent sessions of the Modern Language Association, in Cambridge, Mass., although all the discussions were spirited and pointed, it seemed to me that the maturest and best talk came from those who showed that they had not been trained in the modern languages alone. The collective literature of the world is not too wide a study to affor
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Rev. G. W. Beale at the Northern neck soldiers' Reunion, November 11, 1884. (search)
wn and honor. Let us heed this plea for Virginia's humble soldier-sons, the rank and file of her army who stood shoulder to shoulder in the ranks and, like a living wall of fire, beat back, for four weary years, the angry tide of battle. Let their names and their virtues abide forever in the sacred custody of the State. As through the ages there shall shine in the coronet of night, amidst its brightest constellation, an innumerable host of lesser lights; as along with Mars and Jupiter and Venus and all the dazzling planets the mingling stars that from the Milky Way shall girdle the heavens with a belt of silver glory, so in the coronet of Virginia's bright renown, along with the fame of her mighty names, may there gleam forth, through all time, the noble devotion and the undying memory of the private soldiers who suffered and bled in her defence. Having thus dwelt, my comrades, on our relations to the cause with which we were identified in the late war, and the duties which thos
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
ly over the bar in daylight of the powder-laden Cornubia, in 1862, and the A. D. Vance, with a party of ladies and Dr. Hoge, of Richmond, with Bibles for the soldiers, in 1864 (the latter steamer rescued by a timely shot from a ten-inch Columbiad in the fort), were incidents never to be forgotten. The recapture of the Kate of London and the Nighthawk, the wreck of the Condor under the guns of the fort, and the sad drowning of Mrs. Greenhough, the famous Confederate spy, the fights over the Venus and the Hebe on the beach of Masonboro Sound, where one of the garrison was killed and a Whitworth gun captured from a detachment of men guarding the wrecks August 23, 1863, by the United States frigate Minnesota, carrying forty-four guns, which came close to shore and rendered a retreat with the guns impossible, were thrilling events in our camp life. We had a visit from President Davis; he landed at the end of the point and rode on horseback with General Whiting to the mound. As soon a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.23 (search)
t go your anchor— with the rattle of the chains he sank to the desk, overcome by the dread disease, and on the following morning breathed his last. For, thoa from out our bourne time and place, The flood may bear me far; I hope to see my pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar. Along the coast may still be seen the storm-beaten hulls of some of the unfortunate ships, which, after weathering many a gale at sea, came to grief within sight of a friendly port. The Beauregard and the Venus lie stranded on Carolina Beach; the Modern Greece near New Inlet; the Antonica on Frying Pan Shoals; the Ella on Bald Head; the Spunkey and the Georgiana McCall on Caswell Beach; the Hebe and the Dee between Wrightsville and Masonboro. Two others lie near Lockswood's Folly Bar, and others whose names are also forgotten, lie half buried in the sands, where they may remain for centuries. John N. Maffitt. Among that devoted band of United States navy officers whose home and kindred were
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Gregory Stone and some of his descendants (search)
ncestor of Hon. William H. Kent, one of the mayors of Charlestown. Joseph Kent died May 30, 1753, in his seventy-ninth year, and was the father of nine children. In his will there is mention of seventy-four acres at Winter Hill, bounded, east, by a rangeway; west, by Peter Tufts; etc. Besides several smaller parcels, he left to his son Samuel sixteen acres, bought of N. Hayward, near Winter Hill, and the use of twelve acres of wood. He bequeathed his negro Peggy to his daughter Mehitabel; Venus to his daughter Rebecca; Jenny to his son Benjamin; and Violet to his son Stephen. The will of his widow, probated 1762, mentions her negro girl Jane. Samuel, the fifth child, born July 18, 1714, lived and died probably on what is now Somerville avenue. The family homestead is still standing above the Middlesex Bleachery, near Kent street. Mr. Kent was a blacksmith, and, like his father, held various town offices, including that of selectman. Wyman's invaluable work, to which we are ind
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Index (search)
than, Sr., 38. Tufts, Oliver, 38. Tufts. Peter, 16, 66, 88, 89, 92. Tufts, Peter, Jr., 69, 89. Tufts, Rebecca, 89. Tufts, Samuel, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93. Tufts, Dr., Simon, 18. Tufts, Timothy, 66, 89, 90, 91, 92. Tufts, Timothy, Esq., 93. Tufts, W., 89. Tufts, Widow, 24. Tufts, William, 42. Turner, John, 66. Turnpike, .Medford, 22. Underwood, Joseph, 11. Unitarian Church, 40. Ursuline Convent, 22. Usher, Governor, 19, 31. Vane, Sir, Henry, 33. Vassall, William, 28. Venus, 88. Vermont, 56. Vinal, Anna Parker, 71. Vinal, Josephine, 71. Vinal, Leonora, 71. Vinal, Leslie T., 71. Vinal, Lydia (Stone), 70. Vinal, Martha Adams, 71. Vinal, Mary Lowell, 71. Vinal, Quincy Adams, 37, 70. Vinal, Robert A., 70. Vinal, Deacon, Robert, 37, 70. Violet, 88. Walters, William, 13. Waltham, Mass., 74. Wannottymies River, 31. Warren, Amos, 91. Washington (General), 58. Washington Hall, 48. Washington School, 52. Washington Street, Boston, 30. Wat
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
im to go South, to the White Sulphur Springs, and thinks that, despite of his dark complexion, he would be safe there from being sold for jail fees, as his pro-slavery merits would more than counterbalance his colored liabilities, which, after all, were only prima facie evidence against him. He suggests Texas, also, as a place where patriots of a certain class most do congregate, and continues as follows:— There is Arkansas, too, all glorious in new-born liberty, fresh and unsullied, like Venus out of the ocean,—that newly discovered star in the firmament banner of this Republic. Sister Arkansas, with her bowie-knife graceful at her side, like the huntress Diana with her silver bow,—oh it would be refreshing and recruiting to an exhausted patriot to go and replenish his soul at her fountains. The newly evacuated lands of the Cherokee, too, a sweet place now for a lover of his country to visit, to renew his self-complacency by wandering among the quenched hearths of the expatriate<
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
.) William Cutler was a Pct. committeeman and assessor in 1764. William (3), was an innholder and had slaves. Rose, his servant, m. Punch, servant of Samuel Brooks of Medford, 3 June, 1754—fee 10s. She, styled maid-servant of William, was bap. 15 Dec. 1754. (Punch, her husband, slave—man-servant of Samuel Brooks, Jr., Medford—bap. same time). A negro child of Rose, servant of William, b. 2 Feb. 1755, d. 5 Feb. 1755, a. 4 ds. Dinah, negro girl of Wil-Liam, was bap. 17 Oct. 1756, se. 2. Venus, a dau. of Rose—William's negro—was bap. 9 Dec. 1759. Prince, s. of Rose—William's servant—b. 8 Aug., bap. 12 Sept. 1762. Rose m. Scipio Pool of Medford, 1 Sept. 1768—fee $1. Rose, servant of William, d. 29 Aug. 1769, a. 48. Tobey, black slave of William, d. 16 Apr. 1774. Ishmael, rated in Menotomy in 1781, was probably a servant of William. Dinah and Ishmael are named in an article on the doings of the Cutler family at the time of the passage of the British troops through M
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