Margaret Fuller (72 page)

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   “that if Margaret”:
FLIV,
p. 76.

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   “crave” all the more:
FLIV,
p. 87.

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   “noble enough”:
FLIV,
pp. 82–83.

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   “come tomorrow”:
FLIV,
p. 102. Although the source of Margaret’s quotation from Novalis is not known, she may have been offering a loose translation of the closing lines of his poem “Astralis,” which include “Das Herz als Asche niederfaellt”—“The heart, as ashes, falls down.” I am grateful to Yu-jin Chang for suggesting this possible attribution.

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   “Platonic affection”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.

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   “Your views”: Ibid.

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   “the class”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man
versus
Men. Woman
versus
Women,”
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 35.

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   “read not”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.

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   “childish rest”:
FLIV,
p. 87.

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   “was not enough”:
FLIV,
p. 98.

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   “called on for wisdom”:
FLIV,
p. 137.

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   “and now am”:
FLIV,
p. 98.

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   “the crimson ones”:
FLIV,
p. 98.

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   “works which”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 57.

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   “get out”:
FLIV,
p. 87.

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   “but a mortal”:
FLIV,
p. 95.

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   “able to stand”:
WNC,
p. 161.

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   “life seems”:
FLIV,
p. 97.

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   “so much for me”:
FLIV,
p. 99.

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   “
mein liebste
”:
FLIV,
p. 96.

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   “since you have”:
FLIV,
p. 104.

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   “carried . . . many”:
FLIV,
p. 91.

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   “must know”:
FLIV,
p. 99.

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   “you must always”:
FLIV,
p. 109.

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   “take it gently”:
FLIV,
p. 97.

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   “You have touched”:
FLIV,
p. 75.

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   was no “mistake”:
FLIV,
p. 107.

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   “your moon”:
FLIV,
p. 100.

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   “To the Face Seen in the Moon”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 172.

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   “The Woman in me”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 172.

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   a “queenly” moon:
FLIV,
p. 102.

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   “A human secret”:
FLIV,
p. 105.

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   “have no confidant”:
FLIV,
p. 159.

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   “we improve”:
FLIV,
p. 136.

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   “men have the privilege”:
FLIV,
p. 117.

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   “last letter”:
FLIV,
p. 111.

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   “magnetic power”: MF,
Art, Literature, and the Drama
(New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), p. 83.

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   “it is well”:
FLIV,
pp. 110–11.

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   “I cannot do”:
FLIV,
p. 77.

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   “fair girl”:
FLIV,
p. 147.

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   “She must suffer”:
FLIV,
p. 139.

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   “who combined”:
FLIV,
p. 100.

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   “beautiful summer”:
FLIV,
p. 153.

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   “prettiest dresses”:
FLIV,
p. 148.

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   “the waters”:
FLIV,
p. 137.

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   “concentrated on”:
FLIV,
p. 141.

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   “indeed there
are
”:
FLIV,
p. 121.

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   “I have never”:
FLIV,
p. 141.

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   “no poem”:
FLIV,
p. 92.

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   “is it not by living”:
FLIV,
p. 141.

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   titled “Clairvoyance”:
New-York Daily Tribune,
July 23, 1845, C163 in CD-ROM accompanying
Margaret Fuller, Critic.

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   “the affair”:
FLIV,
p. 146.

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   “poor maiden”:
FLIV,
p. 139.

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   “
Now
is the crisis”:
FLIV,
p. 147.

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   “tender and elevated”:
FLIV,
p. 134.

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   “the precious”:
FLIV,
pp. 134–35.

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   “a good miniature”:
FLIV,
p. 149.

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   “I like them better”:
FLIV,
p. 121.

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“has rent from me”: Quoted in
JMNXI,
pp. 507–8.

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   “our moods”:
FLIV,
p. 167.

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   “seldom” . . . “because he”: Quoted in Joel Myerson,
The New England Transcendentalists and
The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), pp. 208, 209.

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   “very lonely”:
FLIV,
p. 167.

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   “just about”:
FLIV,
p. 163.

17. LOST ON BEN LOMOND

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   “would have given”:
FLIV,
pp. 192–93.

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   “great mutual”: MF, “Thom’s Poems,”
New-York Tribune,
August 22, 1845, C175 in CD-ROM accompanying Judith Matson Bean and Joel Myerson, eds.,
Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the
New-York Tribune
, 1844–1846
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

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   “If I persevere”:
FLIV,
p. 193.

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   “a desire for you”:
FLIV,
pp. 204–5.

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   “retouching” several:
FLIV,
p. 146.

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   “never be”:
FLIV,
p. 205.

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   “I am going”:
FLIV,
p. 195.

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   “full of distaste”:
FLIV,
p. 216n.

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   “and then thanks”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 227.

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   “brief and vivid”:
FLIV,
pp. 218–19.

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   “very glad to find”:
FLIV,
p. 166.

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   “close calculator”:
CFII,
p. 271.

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   “The attractive force”:
FLIV,
p. 213.

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   “slower, solider”:
Dispatches,
p. 41.

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   “packages of seed”: MF,
Essays on American Life and Letters,
Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 380.

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   “nine days of wonder”:
Dispatches,
p. 39.

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   “florid, fair”:
Dispatches,
p. 53.

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   “the real wants”:
Dispatches,
p. 57.

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   “merely the retirement”:
Dispatches,
p. 53.

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   “I care not”: Julia Ward Howe, ed.,
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845–1846
(New York: D. Appleton, 1903), p. 187.

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   “drenching” equinoctial:
Dispatches,
p. 69.

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   “Life seems”:
FLIV,
p. 97.

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   “alone, as usual” . . . “I have no real”:
OMII,
pp. 166, 167.

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   nickname “Sibyl”: Bettine von Arnim,
Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child,
vol. 1 (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), p. 91. Margaret had also written a breathlessly admiring letter to the sixty-five-year-old von Arnim in 1840, before she had given up her project of writing a biography of Goethe. It appears that she received no answering letter.
FLVI,
pp. 328–29.

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   “Officer of Hussars”:
Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child,
vol. 1, p. 102.

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   “drink in”:
Dispatches,
p. 74.

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   “all fevered” and remainder of account:
Dispatches,
pp. 75–77.

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   “
if
I had not tried”:
FLIV,
p. 228.

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   “cessation of intercourse”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 291.

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   “my Yankee method”:
Dispatches,
p. 77.

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   “life rushes”: MF, “Farewell,”
New-York Daily Tribune,
August 1, 1846;
Essays on American Life,
p. 379.

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   “the
feeble
”: MF, review of Thomas L. McKenney, in
Memoirs, Official and Personal,
New-York Daily Tribune,
July 8, 1846, C308 in CD-ROM accompanying
Margaret Fuller, Critic.

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   “heightening and deepening”:
Essays on American Life,
p. 380.

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   “she had seen”:
JMNXI,
p. 498.

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   “making some good”:
FLIV,
p. 188.

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   “glad Margaret Fuller”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 278.

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   had just “
eloped
”:
FLIV,
p. 235.

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   “especially women”:
Dispatches,
p. 79.

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   “I found” . . . “persons of celebrity”:
FLIV,
pp. 239–40, 235.

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   “preconceived strong”:
FLIV,
p. 228.

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   “others of a radical”:
FLIV,
p. 235.

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   “habits of conversation”:
FLIV,
p. 228.

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   “a woman of tact”: Quoted in
JMNXI,
p. 471.

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   “European society”:
FLIV,
p. 245.

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   “chosen the profession”:
FLIV,
pp. 240–41.

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   “the miserable”:
FLIV,
p. 194.

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   “waited long enough”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’”: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,”
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
vol. 102, 1990, p. 109.

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   “full of grace”:
FLIV,
pp. 248–49.

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   “full of all nobleness”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 235.

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   “Beyond any”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 240.

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   “beauteous and pure”:
FLIV,
pp. 248–49.

18. “ROME HAS GROWN UP IN MY SOUL”

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   “the city of pleasures”:
FLIV,
p. 252.

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   “
getting dressed
”:
FLIV,
p. 241.

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   “thick, flowered”:
FLIV,
p. 253.

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   “in a little”:
FLIV,
p. 229.

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   “the devotion”:
FLIV,
p. 241.

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   “openings were made”:
FLIV,
p. 244.

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   “only way”:
FLIV,
p. 234.

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   “besetting danger”: MF,
Essays on American Life and Letters,
Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), pp. 369–70.

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   “habit of feeding”:
Dispatches,
p. 128.

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   verbal “sharp-shooters”:
Dispatches,
p. 122.

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   “true kings”:
Dispatches,
p. 111.

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   Fourier’s estimate:
WNC,
p. 160.

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   “lives on the footing”:
FLIV,
p. 262n.

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   “Madame Sand”:
FLIV,
p. 256.

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   “
La dame Americaine
” and account of meeting with George Sand:
OMII,
pp. 194–98.

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   “the man I had”:
FLIV,
p. 261.

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   “the present”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in
CFII,
p. 318.

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   “deep-founded mental connection”:
FLIV,
pp. 261–62.

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   “the very few”:
FLV,
p. 175.

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   “the only one”:
FLV,
p. 176.

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   “vow never”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in
CFII,
p. 318.

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   “He affected”:
FLIV,
p. 263.

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   “an embodied”: Quoted in
Dispatches,
p. 6.

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   “How much time”:
FLIV,
p. 261.

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   “the attraction”:
FLIV,
p. 263; “frightful”: MF, “1849 Journal,” p. 2, bMS Am 1986 [4] FMW.

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   “I speak and act”:
FLIV,
p. 259.

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   “I do not know”:
FLIV,
p. 263.

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   “prostrate multitude”: William Ellery Channing,
Conversations in Rome: Between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic
(Boston: William Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1847), p. 6.

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   “natal day”:
Dispatches,
pp. 136–37.

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   “not great enough”: Rebecca Spring, quoted in
VM,
p. 254.