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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 1 1 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Boston, July 27, 1834, I have at last obtained the Christian Examiner, and read your article. As the old Quaker wrote me about the Mother's book, 1 I am free to say to thee, it is a most excellent thing. I think I never read a better article in my life; not even excepting the Edinburgh. I was delighted with it. You bow most reverently to Wordsworth, that great poet, that confidant of angels, as Lavater says of Klopstock. Did not your conscience twinge you for throwing Peter Bell and the Idiot Boy in my teeth so often, and for laughing me to scorn when I said Milton's fame was the sure inheritance of Wordsworth? I was glad for what you said concerning the state of the affections with regard to the perception of elevated truths. I believe the more you look inward the more you will be convinced of the truth of what you advanced on that point, and that, too, not merely in a general point of view, but as applied to your own mind, and the different states of y