“This is a book that will have a permanent value as a traveling companion. It is written in a very plain and natural manner, and with good taste and feeling”
Author
Lydia Sigourney
Lydia Sigourney is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). One work is named, all in Scenes in My Native Land . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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In Fuller’s words
“When Louis XIV, by the revocation of the Edict of Naniz, scattered the rich treasure of the hearts of more than half a million of subjects to foreign climes, this Western World profited by his mad prodigality.”
When Fuller engaged with Lydia Sigourney
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Sigourney in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Scenes in My Native Land . . .
“Scenes in My Native Land . . .”analyzed · quoted · read9 selected passages
“I STOOD upon a breezy hight, and marked The rural landscape’s charms; fields thick with corn, And new-mown grass that bathed the ruthless scythe With a forgiving fragrance”
“Green Vine! That mantlest in thy fresh embrace Yon old, grey rock, I hear that thou with them Didst brave the ocean surge Say drank thy germ The dews of Languedoc?”
“Methought its broad leaves shivered in the gale, With whispered words. There was a gentle form, A fair, young creature, who at twilight hour Oft brought me water”
“Vine of Rousaillon! Tell me other tales Of that high-hearted race, who for the sake Of conscience, made those western wilds their home?”
“When Louis XIV, by the revocation of the Edict of Naniz, scattered the rich treasure of the hearts of more than half a million of subjects to foreign climes, this Western World profited by his mad prodigality.”
“By his virtuous and dignified deportment, he acquired great influence over the Indians, whose wigwams were thickly planted in the great meadows toward the south-east, and along the margin of Connecticut river.”
“It seems almost a wickedness, wantonly to smite down a vigorous healthful tree. It was of God’s planting, and in its veins is circulating the life which He has given.”
“Something of the kind is often seen in New-England among planted fields or loaded cherry trees, but not worthy to be compared with these in device or execution.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Scenes in My Native Land . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 28 January 1845.