WorkGeorge Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
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Documented 1844
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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“that work which makes us conscious, as we listen, why the soul of man was thought worthy and able to upbear a cross of such dreadful weight ? the Messiah of Handel.”
Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "Christmas." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1844. · 25 December 1844
“Even in Handel's Messiah, I am half incredulous, half impatient, when the sadness of the second part comes to check ...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.