Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems.
Reason of Punishment, with Special Reference to the Penalty of Death New
York, 1846.
[28] [In refusing to repeal what are technically and significantly
termed her "Black Laws," relating to the settlement of colored men, and
their rights within that state.--ED.]
[29] John Quincy Adams.
[30] For her treatment of a sister republic in our late war with Mexico.
[31] Miss Delia Webster.
[32] Hon. Samuel Hoar, sent to Charleston, S. C., to test in the courts
her laws, and driven thence with his daughter by a mob.
[33] It is well known that in this sketch my sister gives an account of
an incident in the history of her own school-girl life. I need scarcely
say that only so far as this incident is concerned is the story of
Mariana in any sense autobiographical.--ED.
[34][Agis, king of Sparta, the fourth of that name. "One of the most
beautiful characters of antiquity."--ED.]
[35] [In New York.--ED.]
[36] Meta, the wife of Klopstock, one of Germany's most celebrated
poets, is doubtless well known to many of our readers through the
beautiful letters to Samuel Richardson, the novelist, or through Mrs.
Jameson's work, entitled the Loves of the Poets. It is said that
Klopstock wrote continually to her even after her death.
[37] Fact, that this is affirmed.
[38] Facts.
[39] Facts.
[40] Facts.
[41] The destruction of Mr. Clay's press by a mob.--ED.
[42] _Margaret_ means _Pearl_.--ED.
[43] Published in the New York Tribune, Aug. 1, 1846, just previous to
sailing for Europe.--ED.
[44] Goethe says, "A little golden heart, which I had received from
Lili in those fairy hours, still hung by the same little chain to which
she had fastened it, love-warmed, about my neck. I seized hold of
it--kissed it." This was the occasion of these lines. The poet now was
separated from Lili, and striving to forget her in journeying
about.--ED.
[45] Buddhist term for absorption into the divine mind.
[46] This horse, Konick, was caught early, marked, and then let loose
again, for a time, among the herd. He still retains a wild freedom and
beauty in his movements.
[47] A sweet and beautiful singer.--ED.
[48] A musical instrument of the ancients, employed by the Egyptians in
the worship of Isis. It was to be kept in constant motion, and,
according to Plutarch, was intended to indicate the necessity of
constant motion on the part of men--the need of being often shaken by
fierce trials and agitations when they become morbid or indolent.--ED.
[49] Diana is represented as driving the chariot of the moon, as Apollo
that of the sun. Mythology states that while enlightening the earth as
Luna, the moon, she beheld the hunter Endymion sleeping in the forest.
With her rays she kissed the lips of the hunter--a favor she had never
before bestowed on god or man.--ED.
[50] These lines were written without her signature attached.--ED.