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“The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode”

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1757), Ingerred

Thomas Gray (1716–1771) · 1757

InferredFuller quotes the phrase 'purple light of love' (in quotation marks, signaling a borrowed phrase) from Thomas Gray's Pindaric ode The Progress of Poesy (1757), stanza I.1: 'O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move / The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.'

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“no more thinks of playing the flute than one of the "settled down" members of our society would of choosing the "purple light of love" as dye-stuff for a surtout.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller quotes the phrase 'purple light of love' (in quotation marks, signaling a borrowed phrase) from Thomas Gray's Pindaric ode The Progress of Poesy (1757), stanza I.1: 'O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move / The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.'