“I have, however been much pleased of late with the life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.”
Author
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury(1583–1648)
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and manuscripts (1842–1846). 10 distinct works are named, most often in Mostly Extracts, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “translated”.
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- Letters · Books · Manuscripts
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- 1842–1846
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →
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 →
In Fuller’s words
“CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE. Purified in my whole genius, I congratulate myself Secure of fate, while neither am I downcast by any terrors, Nor store up secret griefs in my heart, But pass my days cheerfully in the midst of mishaps, Despite the evils which engird the earth, Seeking the way above the stars with ardent virtue.”
When Fuller engaged with Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Herbert in Fuller’s reading world
- The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury1842–1846
- De vita humana philosophica disquisitio' and 'De vita coelesti, ex iisdem principiis conjectura1842
- Occasional Verses
- “An Ode upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue for Ever”1842
- CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE1846
- De Veritate [On Truth]1846
- Life1846
- Lord Herbert's Prayer
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1842—
Letter to Frederic H. Hedge
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“I admire his view of life as shown in his Latin poems.”
Inferred Fuller admires Herbert's view of life as shown in his Latin poems, specifically "De vita humana philosophica disquisitio" and "De vita coelesti, ex iisdem principiis conjectura," identified by Hudspeth.
“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, / Much less your fairest mind invade / Were not our souls immortal made, / Our equal loves can make them such.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
1842—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson(?)
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“I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby.”
“Do you not admire Lord Herbert's two poems on life, and the conjectures concerning celestial life? I keep reading them.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“First, the life stirred within the genial seed, / Seeking its properties, whence plastic power / Was born.”
“Having many conscientious doubts whether or no to publish his book, De Veritate, (which was against revealed religion, on the ground that it was improbable that Heaven should deal partially with men, revealing its will to one race and nation, not to another,)”
“Being thus doubtful in my chamber, one fair day in the summer, my casement being opened to the south, the sun shining clear and no wind stirring, I took my book, De Veritate, in my hand, and kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words:— O, thou eternal God, author of the light which now shines upon me, and giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1846—
The Two Herberts
“The Two Herberts”translated · analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“The following narration, published by Lord Herbert, in his life, has often been made use of by his opponents.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p32; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p38; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
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Mostly Extracts
pp5–6, pp12–14, pp21–24“As a child it was so long before I began to speak that many thought I should be even dumb.”
“Prima fuit quondam geniali semine vita / Procurasse suas dotes, ubi plastica virtus / Gestit, et vegeto molem praeparasse succo”
“O God!”
“The watery ground that late did swarm, / Was strewed with flowers for the return / Of the wished bridegroom of the earth.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Mostly Extracts." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (89); Box 5 (89).
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Notes, 1st Issue of the Dial
p3“The Two Herberts, or / dialogue } Present”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes, 1st Issue of the Dial." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086.
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Outline for a Collected Volume
p3mentionedManuscript page
“The Two Herberts, or / dialogue } Present”
Fuller, Margaret. "Outline for a Collected Volume." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“26 Dec. 1842. — I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.