 | Margaret Fuller - 1856 - 506 Seiten
...I have come prepared to see all this, to dislike it, but not with stupid narrowness to distrust of defame. On the contrary, while I will not be so obliging...strange ingredients of the witch's caldron. Thus I will not-grieve that all the noble trees are gone already from this island to feed this caldron, but believe... | |
 | Julia Ward Howe - 1883 - 348 Seiten
...see all this, to dislike it, but not with stupid narrowness to distrust or defame. On the contrary, I trust by reverent faith to woo the mighty meaning...order, a new poetry, is to be evoked from' this chaos." Charles Dickens's "American Notes" may have been in Margaret's mind when she penned these lines, and... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1895 - 492 Seiten
...dislike it, but not with stupid narrowness to distrust or defame. On the contrary, while I will not be BO obliging as to confound ugliness with beauty, discord...ingredients of the witch's caldron. Thus I will not grieve ihat all the noble trees are gone already from this island to feed this caldron, but believe it will... | |
 | Annette Kolodny - 1984 - 326 Seiten
...Fuller kept a journal. In it, she noted down all that she encountered and experienced, hoping thereby "to woo the mighty meaning of the scene, perhaps to...order, a new poetry, is to be evoked from this chaos" (SL, p. 28). The fruit of that wooing was Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, published the next year in... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - 368 Seiten
...that she would find the mushroom growth of the West distasteful, but she was resolved to "seek out the mighty meaning of the scene, perhaps to foresee...order, a new poetry is to be evoked from this chaos." Thus prepared, she found rich compensation in the fruits she "gathered in the open field," and she... | |
 | Lucy Maddox - 1991 - 211 Seiten
...gentle proportions that successive lives, and the gradations of experience involuntarily give. ... I have come prepared to see all this, to dislike it,...order, a new poetry is to be evoked from this chaos. . . . (28) Where a Walt Whitman might have exulted in the sheer bustle and energy of the frontier settlements,... | |
 | Adam W. Sweeting - 1996 - 252 Seiten
...1843 excursion across the Illinois prairie, she not surprisingly betrayed her East Coast upbringing: "I trust by reverent faith to woo the mighty meaning...order, a new poetry, is to be evoked from this chaos." 59 Accustomed to a picturesque topography, she struggled to understand how the undifferentiated level... | |
 | Robert E. Abrams - 2004 - 196 Seiten
...paradox, and incongruity in frame of reference, emphasizing, instead, that "I trust by reverent faith to ... foresee the law by which a new order, a new poetry is to be evoked from this chaos" (86). For the transitional middle time between mutually incommensurable cultural orders is perplexing... | |
 | Anne Baker - 2006 - 194 Seiten
...Fuller links her own sightseeing trip through the Great Lakes region with the Seeress's second sight: I trust by reverent faith to woo the mighty meaning...from the strange ingredients of the witch's caldron. (86; emphasis added) In Fuller's extended metaphor, "the witch's caldron" is the rapid and ugly growth... | |
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I trust by reverent faith to woo the mighty meaning of the scene, perhaps to foresee the law by which a new order, a new poetry, is to be evoked from this chaos... 