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Robert Browning (search for this): chapter 19
go, leaving their ideal, their confidence, their immortal hope unchanged. And now that much which Transcendentalism sought is fulfilled, and that which was ecstasy has — as Emerson predictedbecome daily bread, its reminiscences mingle with all youth's enchantments, and belong to a period when we too toiled, feasted, despaired, were happy. And as for Margaret Ossoli, her life seems to me, on the whole, a triumphant rather than a sad one, in spite of the prolonged struggle with illness, with poverty, with the shortcomings of others and with her own. In later years she had the fulfillment of her dreams; she had what Elizabeth Barrett, writing at the time of her marriage to Robert Browning, named as the three great desiderata of existence, life and love and Italy. She shared in great deeds, she was the counselor of great men, she had a husband who was a lover, and she had a child. They loved each other in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. Was not that enough
W. Ellery (search for this): chapter 19
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. I stand a barren vine-stalk; no grape will swell, though the richest wine is slumbering in its roots. Fuller Mss. i. 589. I have just about enough talent and knowledge to furnish a dwelling for friendship, but not enough to deck with golden gifts a Delphos for the world. Fuller Mss. i. 593. As I read Ellery [Channing] my past life seems a poor excuse for not living; my so-called culture a collection of shreds and patches to hide the mind's nakedness. Cannot I begin really to live and think now? Fuller Mss. i. 597. How many authors, surrounded by a circle of admiring friends, are found to have descended, in their secret diaries, to quite such depths of humility as appear in these extracts? Another point where I should diverge strongly from the current estimate of Margaret Fuller is in t
Margaret Ossoli (search for this): chapter 19
rtune to grow old slowly; their world is still poetic; the material achievements, the utilitarian philosophy of later years may come or go, leaving their ideal, their confidence, their immortal hope unchanged. And now that much which Transcendentalism sought is fulfilled, and that which was ecstasy has — as Emerson predictedbecome daily bread, its reminiscences mingle with all youth's enchantments, and belong to a period when we too toiled, feasted, despaired, were happy. And as for Margaret Ossoli, her life seems to me, on the whole, a triumphant rather than a sad one, in spite of the prolonged struggle with illness, with poverty, with the shortcomings of others and with her own. In later years she had the fulfillment of her dreams; she had what Elizabeth Barrett, writing at the time of her marriage to Robert Browning, named as the three great desiderata of existence, life and love and Italy. She shared in great deeds, she was the counselor of great men, she had a husband who wa
John Neal (search for this): chapter 19
onal traits. That woman of genius, Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman of Providence,--best known to the world as having been the betrothed of Edgar Poe, -wrote once, in the Providence journal, a description of a scene where the brilliant and audacious John Neal gave a parlor lecture on Phrenology, then at its high-tide of prominence; and illustrated it by Margaret Fuller's head. The occasion is thus described:-- Among the topics of the evening, phrenology was introduced, and Mr. Neal expressed aMr. Neal expressed a wish to give what might be termed a topical illustration of his favorite theory. Miss Fuller slowly uncoiled the.heavy folds of her light brown hair and submitted her haughty head to his sentient fingers. The masterly analysis which he made of her character, its complexities and contradictions, its heights and its depths, its nobilities and its frailties, was strangely lucid and impressive, and helped one who knew her well to a more tender and sympathetic appreciation of her character and car
R. W. Emerson (search for this): chapter 19
ns sometimes different from theirs. I do not think that Mr. Emerson, with his cool and tranquil temperament, always did quitemploying the talents given her. Rising in the morning, as Emerson says of all of us, with an appetite that could eat the sol thought that we human beings ought not, as she wrote to Mr. Emerson (in 1839), to suppress the worst or select the best of o, as many other strong natures have been, by the spirit of Emerson's couplet,-- He who feeds men serveth few, He serves alHere it is that she sometimes chafes under the guidance of Emerson; always longs to work as well as meditate, to deal with th Ms. (W. H. C.) Again, after a day in the woods with Emerson's Nature, --reading it through for the first time to herself, Mr. Emerson himself having originally read it aloud to her,--she thus writes to him (April 12, 1840):-- The years dom sought is fulfilled, and that which was ecstasy has — as Emerson predictedbecome daily bread, its reminiscences mingle with
Plato (search for this): chapter 19
. I can only console myself for these semblances of actions by seeing that others seem to be in some degree aided by them. But oh! really to feel the glow of action, without its weariness, what heaven it must be! Ms. Again she writes to the same friend, contrasting the meditative life of Socrates and the active life of Jesus Christ:-- Cambridge, June 17, 1842. In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon and became more acquainted with his Socrates. I had before known only the Socrates of Plato, one much more to my mind. Socrates took the ground that you approve; he conformed to the Greek Church, and it is evident with a sincere reverence, because it was the growth of the national mind. He thought best to stand on its platform, and illustrate, though with keen truth, by received forms: this was his right way, for his influence was naturally private, for individuals who could, in some degree, respond to the teachings of his demon; it made no difference to him; he knew the multi
Xenophon (search for this): chapter 19
ng (March 22, 1840):-- I never in life have had the happy feeling of really doing anything. I can only console myself for these semblances of actions by seeing that others seem to be in some degree aided by them. But oh! really to feel the glow of action, without its weariness, what heaven it must be! Ms. Again she writes to the same friend, contrasting the meditative life of Socrates and the active life of Jesus Christ:-- Cambridge, June 17, 1842. In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon and became more acquainted with his Socrates. I had before known only the Socrates of Plato, one much more to my mind. Socrates took the ground that you approve; he conformed to the Greek Church, and it is evident with a sincere reverence, because it was the growth of the national mind. He thought best to stand on its platform, and illustrate, though with keen truth, by received forms: this was his right way, for his influence was naturally private, for individuals who could, in some de
1844 AD (search for this): chapter 19
d, Nought seems bright to be desired, Music, by thy sails unfurled, Bear me to thy better world; O'er the cold and weltering sea Blow thy breezes warm and free, By sad sighs they ne'er were chilled, By skeptic spell were never stilled. Ms. Diary, 1844. Again she writes, at the same period, she having then various classes to teach :-- Did not get home till just before my class came. Was obliged to lie on the bed all the time they were with me. It was the last time, and they were pleasant. They love me and fancy I am good and wise. Oh that it gave me more pleasure to do a little good, and give a little happiness. But there is no modesty or moderation in me. Ms. Diary, 1844. These extracts are quite inconsistent, I think, with the charge most commonly made against Margaret Fuller,--that of vanity and undue self-absorption. It must always be remembered that some previous descriptions of her have been in a manner warped by the fact that they proceeded from the most gift
June 17th, 1842 AD (search for this): chapter 19
theme, as when she writes to W. H. Channing (March 22, 1840):-- I never in life have had the happy feeling of really doing anything. I can only console myself for these semblances of actions by seeing that others seem to be in some degree aided by them. But oh! really to feel the glow of action, without its weariness, what heaven it must be! Ms. Again she writes to the same friend, contrasting the meditative life of Socrates and the active life of Jesus Christ:-- Cambridge, June 17, 1842. In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon and became more acquainted with his Socrates. I had before known only the Socrates of Plato, one much more to my mind. Socrates took the ground that you approve; he conformed to the Greek Church, and it is evident with a sincere reverence, because it was the growth of the national mind. He thought best to stand on its platform, and illustrate, though with keen truth, by received forms: this was his right way, for his influence was naturally pri
March 22nd, 1840 AD (search for this): chapter 19
her favorite Jean Paul's Titan, she longed for an enterprise for her idle valor. She says in her fragment of autobiographical romance:-- I steadily loved this [Roman] ideal in my childhood, and this is the cause, probably, why I have always felt that man must know how to stand firm on the ground before he can fly. In vain for me are men more, if they are less, than Romans. Again and again she comes back in her correspondence to this theme, as when she writes to W. H. Channing (March 22, 1840):-- I never in life have had the happy feeling of really doing anything. I can only console myself for these semblances of actions by seeing that others seem to be in some degree aided by them. But oh! really to feel the glow of action, without its weariness, what heaven it must be! Ms. Again she writes to the same friend, contrasting the meditative life of Socrates and the active life of Jesus Christ:-- Cambridge, June 17, 1842. In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon and be
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