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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 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)
eur of the cataract to the gentle meanderings of the rill, and spite of all that is said about gentleness, modesty, and timidity in the heroine of a novel or poem, give me the mixture of pathos and grandeur exhibited in the character of Meg Merrilies; or the wild dignity of Diana Vernon, with all the freedom of a Highland maiden in her step and in her eye; or the ethereal figure Annot Lyle,--the lightest and most fairy figure that ever trod the turf by moonlight; or even the lofty contempt of life and danger which, though not unmixed with ferocity, throws such a peculiar interest around Helen Mac-Gregor. In life I am aware that gentleness and modesty form the distinguished ornaments of our sex. But in description they cannot captivate the imagination, nor rivet the attention. Do you know you have a great many questions to answer me? Do not forget that I asked you about the flaming cherubims, the effects of distance, horizontal or perpendicular, Orlando Furioso, and Lord Byron.