WorkWilliam Shakespeare
As You Like It (First Folio 1623) Inferred
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) · First Folio 1623
InferredFuller's phrase "slow foot of time" echoes Rosalind's line "the lazy foot of Time" from Shakespeare's *As You Like It* (III.ii.319), where Rosalind and Orlando exchange witticisms about time's passage.
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Documented 1821–1846
Letters • Books
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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“We have no reason to complain of the slow foot of time.”
Inferred Fuller's phrase "slow foot of time" echoes Rosalind's line "the lazy foot of Time" from Shakespeare's As You Like It (III.ii.319), where Rosalind and Orlando exchange witticisms about time's passage.
“Men grow wiser" "every day" but in reality I find a difficulty in imagining myself an infant.”
Inferred Fuller writes "Men grow wiser" "every day" in quotation marks, echoing Touchstone's line from Shakespeare's As You Like It (I.ii): "Thus men may grow wiser every day." The split quotation marks in the manuscript suggest she is citing a familiar phrase, though the expression was also proverbial in early 19th-century usage.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Do we not see here a comment on the hackneyed text, "Sweet are the uses of adversity”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Quoted phrase 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' is from As You Like It, Act II, Scene 1 (Duke Senior's speech).