WorkPhilip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey (1816–1902)
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Documented 1845
Essays
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“The beautiful are never desolate; For some one alway loves them, God or Man. If man forsakes God himself takes them.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday evening 27th April [1845]; footnote: 'Slightly misquoted from Festus, p. 48'
Multi-line, multi-sentence verbatim quotation from Festus is substantial enough to imply the book was open in front of her.
“Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind,—arrest and search, And shake it—bow the tall soul as by wind— Rush over it like rivers over reeds”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Beethoven Monument." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 September 1845. · 3 September 1845