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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I By: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
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OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI VOL. I. Only a learned and a manly soul
I purposed her, that should with even powers
The rock, the spindle, and the shears control
Of Destiny, and spin her own free hours. BEN JONSON.
Però che ogni diletto nostro e doglia
Sta in si e nò saper, voler, potere;
Adunque quel sol può, che col dovere
Ne trae la ragion fuor di sua soglia. Adunque tu, lettor di queste note,
S' a te vuoi esser buono, e agli altri caro,
Vogli sempre poter quel che tu debbi. LEONARDO DA VINCI
BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY.
MDCCCLVII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, BY R.F. FULLER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District
of Massachusetts.
Stereotyped by HOBART & ROBBINS;
NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE
FOUNDRY BOSTON.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOR
VOLUME FIRST.
I. YOUTH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
PARENTS
DEATH IN THE HOUSE
OVERWORK
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
FIRST FRIEND
SCHOOL LIFE
SELF CULTURE II. CAMBRIDGE, By J.F. Clarke
FRIENDSHIP
CONVERSATION. SOCIAL INTERCOURSE
STUDIES
CHARACTER. AIMS AND IDEAS OF LIFE III. GROTON AND PROVIDENCE. LETTERS AND JOURNALS
SAD WELCOME HOME
OCCUPATIONS
MISS MARTINEAU
ILLNESS
DEATH OF HER FATHER
TRIAL
BIRTH DAY
DEATH IN LIFE
LITERATURE
FAREWELL TO GROTON
WINTER IN BOSTON
PROVIDENCE
SCHOOL EXPERIENCES
PERSONS
ART
FANNY KEMBLE
MAGNANIMITY
SPIRITUAL LIFE
FAREWELL TO SUMMER IV. CONCORD, By R.W. Emerson
ARCANA
DÆMONOLOGY
TEMPERAMENT
SELF ESTEEM
BOOKS
CRITICISM
NATURE
ART
LETTERS
FRIENDSHIP
PROBLEMS OF LIFE
WOMAN, OR ARTIST?
HEROISM
TRUTH
ECSTASY
CONVERSATION V. BOSTON, By R.W. Emerson
CONVERSATIONS ON THE FINE ARTS
YOUTH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "Aus Morgenduft gewebt und Sonnenklarheit
Der Dichtung Schleir aus der Hand der Wahrheit." GOETHE.
"The million stars which tremble
O'er the deep mind of dauntless infancy." TENNYSON.
"Wie leicht ward er dahin gefragen,
Was war dem Glücklichen zu schwer!
Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen
Die luftige Begleitung her!
Die Liebe mit dem süssen Lohne,
Das Glück mit seinem gold'nen Kranz,
Der Ruhm mit seiner Sternenkrone,
Die Wahrheit in der Sonne Glanz." SCHILLER
What wert thou then? A child most infantine,
Yet wandering far beyond that innocent age,
In all but its sweet looks and mien divine;
Even then, methought, with the world's tyrant rage
A patient warfare thy young heart did wage,
When those soft eyes of scarcely conscious thought
Some tale, or thine own fancies, would engage
To overflow with tears, or converse fraught
With passion o'er their depths its fleeting light had wrought.' SHELLE
"And I smiled, as one never smiles but once;
Then first discovering my own aim's extent,
Which sought to comprehend the works of God.
And God himself, and all God's intercourse
With the human mind." BROWNING.
I. YOUTH.
'Tieck, who has embodied so many Runic secrets, explained to
me what I have often felt toward myself, when he tells of
the poor changeling, who, turned from the door of her adopted
home, sat down on a stone and so pitied herself that she wept.
Yet me also, the wonderful bird, singing in the wild forest,
has tempted on, and not in vain.' Thus wrote Margaret in the noon of life, when looking back through
youth to the "dewy dawn of memory." She was the eldest child of
Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane, and was born in Cambridge Port,
Massachusetts, on the 23d of May, 1810. Among her papers fortunately remains this unfinished sketch of youth,
prepared by her own hand, in 1840, as the introductory chapter to an
autobiographical romance.
PARENTS.
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