Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“we cannot at last dispense with, we cannot get away from the divine character, the profound sympathies, the exalted ethics of that Man of Sorrows.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“Bring no more vain oblations;" sermons must daily be preached anew on that text.”
Inferred She refers to it as a "text" upon which "sermons must daily be preached." The source is identified from the quoted phrase, though neither Isaiah nor the Bible is directly named in Fuller's sentence.
“not discordant with "the acceptable year of the Lord”
Inferred The phrase is a verbatim quotation from Isaiah 61:2 (King James Version): "To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD." It is also quoted by Jesus in Luke 4:19. The source of the quotation is inferred.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“The name of the Prince of Peace has been profaned by all kinds of injustice”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who come with glad tidings.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Fuller does not name the biblical source; title inferred from the distinctive phrase. Also quoted in Romans 10:15 in the New Testament, but the original is from Isaiah.
Also quoted in Romans 10:15 in the New Testament, but the original is from Isaiah.
“Still, each mother hopes to find in hers an Emanuel.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“As he began by reading the first chapter of Isaiah, and the fourth of John's Epistle, I made mental comments with pure delight. "Bring no more vain oblations.”
Inferred This entry identifies a passage from the biblical Book of Isaiah, quoted by Fuller as "Bring no more vain oblations." Fuller records hearing this verse, from Isaiah 1:13, read aloud by a preacher and notes her "pure delight" in the moment.
“It was one of the highest praises of Jesus, "The bruised reed he will not break.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“she will not bring flowers, but a living coal, to the lips of the singer”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“That is the legend of Lucifer, the star that would not own its centre.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
“I cannot take my eyes from this King of Babylon, still kingly even in his degradation.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Passion." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 92.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“They led him as a sheep to the slaughter, he opened not his mouth of such things is this Angel speaking.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Michelangelo and Raphael." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“p9: 'left alone by friends, parents / lovers, even by God, obliged / "to tread the wine press alone”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Quoted phrase 'tread the wine press alone' is from Isaiah 63:3 KJV; Fuller does not name the source.