WorkGeorge Herbert
"Affliction" [poem I], in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (1633) Inferred
George Herbert (1593–1633) · 1633
InferredFuller cites George Herbert by name ("as Herbert hath it") when paraphrasing a line from his poem "Affliction" in the "Church" section of *The Temple* (1633).
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Letters
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“Whereas my birth and spirits rather took / The way that takes the town / Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, / And wrap me in a gown.”
Papers on Literature and Art
Full four-line stanza verbatim quoted from 'Affliction (I)', meeting the full-stanza bar for substantial excerpting.
“Heaven, whose course has ever been to "cross-bias me" as Herbert hath it, is no niggard in its compensations”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller cites George Herbert by name ("as Herbert hath it") when paraphrasing a line from his poem "Affliction" in the "Church" section of The Temple (1633).
“Destiny which still "cross biases me" as Herbert said it did him, refusing me what I desired, solitude and quiet in which to concentrate my powers, has rewarded my submission to her guidance with more and fairer gifts than I could have deemed the due of any one”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller names Herbert explicitly and paraphrases "cross biases me as Herbert said it did him," citing the same phrase from Herbert's "Affliction" (I) in The Temple (1633) that appeared in an earlier letter.