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Maxim
Commonplace Entry
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Written Sept. 9th 1803. the day (good one[?]) after we came from [Gintra?] — A — the day 5 weeks that we landed from on board the Richmond. Lisbon.
Birth Date
September 9, 1803
Page
<a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/neatline/fullscreen/p9">Page 9</a>
Notes
Why was it important for Sarah to note that she copied these five lines of poetry (from Thomas Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope") a day after leaving Cintra? We can speculate, given the lines of poetry, that Sarah was distressed at seperating from someone (a friend) in Cintra, and was using these lines to express her despair at "congenial spirits" having met only "to part again."
While this can only give us a glimpse into Sarah's life, it is interesting to note that she would use her commonplace book to express the emotions of her day-to-day life. Sarah's decision to copy only a select few lines from the poem, as well as to omit a line from the section she copied (the ommitted line was "Weep not, she says, at Nature’s transient pain") illustrates that these copied passages were actively refashioned for her own use and circumstance. The act of copying passages—rather than a passive or impersonal act—were clearly active forms of expression, at least at times. On this page, then, we can think of her commonplace book as as much as a diary as it was an account of her reading.
Source
A note on the five lines she copied from Thomas Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope" (1799): see that commonplace entry <a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/items/show/63">here</a>.
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10b
friendship
portugal
sorrow
traveling
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Source
Thomas Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope" (1799)
Notes
Sarah omitted a line from the poem before the final line (where she has left a line break):
"Weep not, she says, at Nature’s transient pain"
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Say, can the world one joyous thought bestow
To Friendship, weeping at the couch of Woe?
No! but a brighter soothes the last adieu,—
Souls of impassion'd mould, she speaks to you
Congenial spirits meet to part again!
Birth Date
1799
Page
<a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/neatline/fullscreen/p10">Page 10</a>
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10a
emotion
friendship
sorrow
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Source
Lines from Pope's translation of Homer's "The Odyssey," Book XVII.
Notes
These four lines describe Ulysses's emotions at meeting his loyal dog Argos. Not including the second part of the fourth line, "then thus impassion'd cried."
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Soft pity touched the mighy masters soul;
Adown his cheek the tear unbidden stole,
Stole unperceiv'd, he turned his head and dryed
The Drop humane -- ----Pope
Page
<a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/neatline/fullscreen/p4">Page 4</a>
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4b
death
emotion
friendship
sorrow
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Source
Footnote, likely by Translator of the work William Melmoth, of "The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Ocassional Remarks", a collection of the letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus ("Pliny the Younger")
Notes
There were 247 surviving letters. Book IX: Footnote to Letter XXXIII, "To Caninius." See <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822043027499;view=1up;seq=202">page 562-63</a> of the 1747 edition.
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The overflowing of humanity in [of] Pliny's temper breaks out upon all occations [occasions], but he discovers it in nothing more strongly than by the impressions [impression] which this little story appears to have made upon him, true benevolence indeed, extends itslef thro' the whole compass of existence, and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. Little mindss [minds] may be apt to consider a compassion of this inferior kind, as an instance of weakness; but it is undoubtedly the evidence of a noble minde / nature. Homer thought it not unbecoming the character of even [even of] a Hero, to melt into tears at [the-crossed out] a distress like this [of this sort][page break] and has given us a most amiable and affecting picture of Ulysses weeping over his faithful dog Argus, when he expires at his feet [<strong>page break</strong>] and has given us a picture amiable and affecting [a most amiable and affecting picture] of Ulysses weeping over his faithful dog Argus when he expires [expired] at his feet .<br /><br /><p class="p1">Soft pity touched the mighy masters soul; <br />Adown his cheek the tear unbidden stole, <br />Stole unperceiv'd, he turned his head and dryed <br />The Drop humane -- ----Pope<br /><br /></p>
Birth Date
1747
Page
<a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/neatline/fullscreen/p3">Page 3</a> & <a href="http://readingthecommonplace.cassidyholahan.com/cms/neatline/fullscreen/p4">Page 4</a>
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Entry 3e / 4a
compassion
death
emotion
reading
sorrow