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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Volume 2)

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Volume 2)

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General United States History

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ISBN10: 1151232920
ISBN13: 9781151232922
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1860. Excerpt: ... JAMAICA PLAIN. BY W. H. CHANNING. Quando Lo raggio della grazia, onde s'accende Verace amore, e che poi cresce amando, Multiplicato in te tanto risplende, Che ti conduce su per quella scala, U' senza risalir nessun discende, Qual ti negasse '1 Tin della sua fiala Per la tua sete, in liberta non fora, Se non com' acqua eh' al mar non si cala. Danti. Weite Welt und breites Leben, Langer Jahre redlich Streben, Stets geforscht und stets gegriindet, Nie geschlossen, oft gerundet, Aeltestes bewahrt mit Treue, Freundlich aufgefasstes Neue, Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke: Nun! man kommt wohl eine Strecke. Goethe. My purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles. Tennyson. Remember how august the heart is. It contains the temple not only of Love but of Conscience; and a whisper is heard from the extremity of one to the extremity of the other. Landob If all the gentlest-hearted friends I knew Concentred in one heart their gentleness, That still grew gentler till its pulse was less For life than pity, -- I should yet be slow To bring my own heart nakedly below The palm of such a friend, that he should press My false, ideal joy and fickle woe Out to full light and knowledge. Elizabeth Barrett. v VI. JAMAICA PLAIN. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. It was while Margaret was residing at Jamaica Plain, in the summer of 1839, that we first really met as friends, though for several years previous we had been upon terms of kindest mutual regard. And, as the best way of showing how her wonderful character opened upon me, the growth of our acquaintance shall be briefly traced. The earliest recollection of Margaret is as a schoolmate of my sisters, in Boston. At that p...

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