WorkGeorge Herbert

“The Church-Porch," in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations”

"The Church-Porch," in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633) Inferred

George Herbert (1593–1633) · Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633

InferredFuller quotes George Herbert's "The Church-Porch" from *The Temple" adapting lines 159–160 with slight variations: Herbert's "where, / And when, and how the businesse may be done" becomes Fuller's "when and where, and how the business can be done." Fuller explicitly names George Herbert and quotes the essence of his phrase about "business to be done." Hudspeth identified the source as Herbert's "The Church-Porch" from *The Temple* (published posthumously in 1633), with the specific lines "Let thy minde still be bent, still / plotting where, / And when, and how the businesse may be done."

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Documented 1839–1842

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Confirmed reading

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.

undatedThe Church ("Sunday")Demonstrated
“as Herbert says:—Sundays the pillars are / On which Heaven's palace arched lies; / The other days fill up the space / And hollow room with vanities”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
Quotes a full four-line stanza of Herbert's poem verbatim, a substantial passage implying the book was in hand.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p59

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“Still planning when and where, and how the business can be done,”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

1842—

Letter to William H. Channing(?)

p80

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“I feel, like Herbert, the weight of "business to be done”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names George Herbert and quotes the essence of his phrase about "business to be done." Hudspeth identified the source as Herbert's "The Church-Porch" from The Temple (published posthumously in 1633), with the specific lines "Let thy minde still be bent, still / plotting where, / And when, and how the businesse may be done."