“We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.” -- Margaret Fuller Woman in the Nineteenth Century… Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845 First edition HG1154 O8 1845 From the preface: “A reproduction, modified and expanded,...
Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound -- the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its beating. Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch -- a tingling...
Long years have passed, my memory is feeble through much suffering...
“At two P.M we set sail, and the men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong wind and heavy sea. The privation of food, under which our voyagers were then laboring, absorbed every other terror; otherwise...