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“Sonnet 22, 'To Cyriack Skinner”

Sonnet 22, 'To Cyriack Skinner' (written c. 1655; first published 1694), Inferred

John Milton (1608–1674) · written c. 1655; first published 1694

InferredFuller's quotation, "bate a jot of heart or hope," is from John Milton's Sonnet 22, "To Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness." The full line reads: "nor bate a jot / Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer / Right onward." This phrase was well-known in the nineteenth century and was used by commentators on William Wordsworth in discussions of "The Happy Warrior." Fuller invokes it here in reference to the abolitionist movement.

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“First of August” · August 1, 1845, August 1845 · p. 1

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“we do not see that they "bate a jot of heart or hope,”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred Fuller's quotation, "bate a jot of heart or hope," is from John Milton's Sonnet 22, "To Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness." The full line reads: "nor bate a jot / Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer / Right onward." This phrase was well-known in the nineteenth century and was used by commentators on William Wordsworth in discussions of "The Happy Warrior." Fuller invokes it here in reference to the abolitionist movement.