Author
John Dryden is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1819–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Life Without and Life Within (1860) ? first publication, Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860, 1860, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“And when England was yet fresh from her grand revolution, and John Bull still cordially enjoyed his yule logs and Christmas feasts, " glorious John Dry den" was not ashamed to write thus of the heroes,— " And when the rage of hunger was appeased.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow He who would search for truth must dive below”
Fuller, Margaret. "Penmanship Practice: "Love your enemies"." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Inferred based on the excerpt from Dryden's poem.
“Deceive their country for their country's good.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred The phrasing echoes Dryden's political satire of the 1680s; specific location in Absalom and Achitophel not identified.
“And when England was yet fresh from her grand revolution, and John Bull still cordially enjoyed his yule logs and Christmas feasts, " glorious John Dry den" was not ashamed to write thus of the heroes,— " And when the rage of hunger was appeased.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p244
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p244; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“All for love and the world well lost." That sounds so true!”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p350