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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 3: Girlhood at Cambridge. (1810-1833.) (search)
ay be hereafter conducive to the best good of others. Oh, keep me steady in an honorable ambition; favored by this calm, this obscurity of life, I might learn everything, did not feeling lavish away my strength. Let it be no longer thus. Teach me to think justly and act firmly. Stifle in my breast those feelings which, pouring forth so aimlessly, did indeed water but the desert, and offend the sun's clear eye by producing weeds of rank luxuriance. Thou art my only Friend! Thou hast not seen fit to interpose one feeling, understanding breast between me and a rude, woful world. Vouchsafe then thy protection, that I may hold on in courage of soul. Fuller Mss. i. 409. She was reading Shelley at this time, and in his early poem On Death occur the lines:-- O man, hold thee on in courage of soul Through the stormy shades of thy worldly way. Before midsummer it had been decided that the family should remove to Groton, and we find her writing from that village, July 4, 1833.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, chapter 7 (search)
eived the archangelic names; it seems inspiration in the parents. So that Swedenborg should bear the name of Emanuel, and Kant, too. The name of Beethoven's mother does not seem without meaning. In writing yesterday, I observed the names of Mary and Elizabeth meeting again in the two queens with some pleasure. William is the Conqueror. Perhaps it is from such association that I thought from earliest childhood I could never love one that bore another name; I am glad it was Shakespeare's. Shelley chose it for his child. It is linked with mine in ballad as if they belonged together, but the story is always tragic. In the Douglas tragedy, the beauty is more than the sorrow. In one of the later ones the connection is dismal. Ms. (W. H. C.) Again, after study of Goethe's Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors), she writes, with similar zest: Sunday, I have been reading, most of the day, the Farbenlehre. The facts interest me only in their mystical significance. As of the colors d
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 10: the Dial. (search)
out of place in the Dial, had they arrived. In her first two years of editorship she brought into prominence a series of writers each of whom had his one statement to make, and, having made it, discreetly retired. Such were the Rev. W. D. Wilson, who wrote The Unitarian movement in New England; the Rev. Thomas T. Stone, who wrote Man in the ages; Mrs. Ripley, the gifted wife of the Rev. George Ripley, who wrote on ( Woman; Professor John M. Mackie, now of Providence, R. I., who wrote of Shelley ; Dr. Francis Tuckerman, who wrote Music of the winter; John A. Saxton, father of the well-known military governor of South Carolina, who wrote Prophecy — Transcendentalism — progress; the Rev. W. B. Greene, a West Point graduate, and afterwards colonel of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, who wrote First principles. Miss Fuller herself wrote the more mystical sketches--Klopstock and Meta, The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain, Yucca Filamentosa, and i Leila ; as well as the more elab
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 18: literary traits. (search)
act as the following-as where she says of Coleridge, Give Coleridge a canvas and he will paint a single mood as if his colors were made of the mind's own atoms; or of Southey, In his most brilliant passages there is nothing of inspiration; or of Shelley, The rush, the flow, the delicacy of vibration in Shelley's verse can only be paralleled by the waterfall, the rivulet, the notes of the bird and of the insect world ; or when she speaks of the balm applied by Wordsworth to the public heart afteShelley's verse can only be paralleled by the waterfall, the rivulet, the notes of the bird and of the insect world ; or when she speaks of the balm applied by Wordsworth to the public heart after the fever of Byron; or depicts the strange bleak fidelity of Crabbe; or says of Campbell that lie did not possess as much lyric flow as force; Papers, etc. p. 71, 77, 83, 93, 98. or of literary phases and fashions generally, There is no getting rid of the epidemic of the season, however amazing and useless it may seem ; yon cannot cough down an influenza, it will cough you down; Papers, etc. p. 87. in all these statements she makes not merely a series of admirable points, but she really give
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 19: personal traits. (search)
orm of an almost excessive humility. It would be easy to illustrate all this at great length from her unpublished papers. The most presumptuous passage about herself that I have been able to find is this, which bears no date. In speaking of Shelley's Defense of Poesie, just read, she expresses her joy at finding that he had taken the matter up very much from the point of view she had been presenting in her conversations. At least, she says, I have all the great thoughts, and whatever the world may say, I shall be well received in the Elysian fields. Fuller Mss. i. 588. Yet this follows close upon a passage expressing her admiration of Shelley's prose style and her utter despair of ever being able to write like him; she can only console herself by thinking that in conversation, at least, she had met him on his own ground. Soon after follow, again and again, passages like these, written at different times:-- I feel within myself an immense power, but I cannot bring it out
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
46, 147, 149, 154, 157, 179-181, 183 189, 291. Ripley, Mrs. G., 163, 180, 183; letter to, 112. Robbins, S. D., 181. Robinson, Rev. Mr., 53, 68. Rosa, Salvator, 95. Roscoe, William, 221. Rotch, Mary, letter to, 212. Russell, Le Baron, 144. Rye-bread days, 104. S. Sand, George, 173, 230. Saxton, Rufus, 163. Schiller, J. C. F. von, 45. Scott, David, 225, 226. Scott, Sir, Walter, 228, 297. Scougal, Ienry, 69. Segur, Comte de, 109. Shakespeare, William, 291, 292. Shelley, P. B., 42, 134, 290, 307. Shepard, Mr., 9. Sismondi, J. C. L. S. de, 24. Slavery, American, 10, 12, 14, 126. Smith, Southwood, 229. Socrates, 309. Southey, Robert, 45, 290. Spring, Edward, 223. Spring, Marcus and Rebecca, 219, 220, 228, 239. Spurzheim, J. G., 49. Stael, Madame de, 30, 37, 45, 109 Stetson, Caleb, 142, 144. Stone, T. T., 163. Storer, Mrs. R. B., 3. Storrow, Miss Ann G., 36. Storrow, Samuel, 51, 52. Story, Joseph, 33. Story, William W., 240. Story, Mrs