The quotations, citations, and other references made by women writers in the WWO collection.
| Source Text(definition of “Source text”) | Gesture(definition of “Intertextual gesture”) | Referenced Work(definition of “Referenced work”) | |||
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| Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) | Text of the Gesture | Gesture Type (The Terminology page on “”) | Text | Topics & Genres (definition of “Topic”) |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Daughters of the Pilgrim sires, Dwellers by their mouldering graves, Watchers of their altar fires, Look upon your country's slaves! Are not woman's pulses warm, Beating in this anguish'd breast? Is it not a sister's form, On whose limbs these fetters rest? Oh then, save her from a doom, Worse than all that ye may bear; Let her pass not to the tomb 'Midst her bondage and despair.” | quote | Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler. 1836. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “A wretch! a coward! ay, because a slave!” | quote | Campbell, Thomas. The Pleasures of Hope. 1799. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Yoked with the brute, and fetter'd to the soil,” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “give liberty to the captive” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “to sing, to dance, To dress, to troll the tongue, and roll their eyes,” | quote | Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1667. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “cap the climax” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “find calm thoughts beneath the whispering tree,” | quote | Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Aspiration. 1827. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “within our borders.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “star-spangled banner” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “His hand shortened, that it cannot save?” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mystery, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Charity envieth not” | quote | 1 Corinthians. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | ‘happy bridal days,’ | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise.” | quote | Gray, Thomas. “Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude.” Poems by Mr. Gray. 1768. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “The cold heartless city, With its forms and dull routine,” | quote | Barker, James. Little Red Riding Hood. 1827. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “pleasant company of books,” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | ‘God tempereth the wind to the shorn lamb,’” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “uncontaminated by the taint of slavery,” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “We went on In vain—there was no living one— But many an English mother's care, And many a lady's love, lay there. #ornament Oh blessed Virgin! who might be Unmoved that mournful sight to see! 'Twas a warrior youth, whose golden hair All lightly waved in the dewy air; Slumbering he seem'd, but drew no breath, His sleep was the heavy sleep of death.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Passing away, is written upon the world, and all that it contains.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “pouring balm into the wounds he made,” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “the morning and the evening sacrifice” | quote | Exodus. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “we have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and have done those things which we ought not to have done?” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “weightier matters of the law” | quote | Matthew. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “those who run may read;” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “bright, high-souled, glorious woman,” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “All reformations are slow (or gradual) in proportion to the abuse designed to be removed; hence from all necessity, this must be slow, as it exceeds in magnitude all others on the habitable globe; for what degradation, either of body or mind, can be named, which is not comprehended in this greatest of abominations, African slavery? the demoralizing effects of which, not less to the master than to the slave, exceeds all others in the known world; for evidence of which, we need only refer to the state of mankind, in those parts of the earth cursed by its existence. But a good work is begun, and I believe a change in public opinion is taking place; and if we can but have patience with dull, heedless, and inattentive lukewarm professors, I doubt not many of us will see a brighter day. Much anxiety, labour, and toil, must first me endured; but what is this, in comparison to restoring to the most inestimable rights of man, hundreds of thousands of our fellow-beings?” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “twinkle dimly through his form,” | quote | Byron, George Gordon. To M—. 1806. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “The infamy of being the first who brought the miserable sons of Africa as slaves from their native soil, attaches itself to the Portuguese, who, as early as 1481, built a castle on the Gold coast, and from thence ravaged the country, and carried off the inhabitants to Portugal, where they were sold into bondage. In 1503, slaves were first taken from the Portuguese settlements in Africa to the Spanish possessions in America; and from that time to 1511, large numbers were exported to the colonies of Spain, by permission of King Ferdinand V. After his death, a proposal was made to the regent of Spain, Cardinal Ximenes, by Las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, to establish a regular commerce in African slaves, under the plausible and well-intentioned, but fallacious pretext of substituting their labour in the colonies for that of the native Indians, who were rapidly becoming exterminated by the severity of their labour, and the cruel treatment of their Spanish masters. To the immortal honour of Cardinal Ximenes, he rejected the proposition on the ground of the iniquity of slavery itself in the abstract, and also, the great injustice of making slaves of one nation, for the liberation of another. The Cardinal appears, therefore, to have been the first avowed opponent of this traffic in men. After the death of this prelate, the Emperor, Charles V., in 1517, encouraged the slave-trade, and granted letters patent for carrying it on; but he lived to see his error, and most nobly renounced it, for he ordered, and had executed, a complete manumission of all African slaves in his American dominions. About this time, Pope Leo X. gave to the world this noble declaration: ‘That not only the Christian religion, but nature, herself, cried out against a state of slavery!’ In the year 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth, the English first stained their hands with the negro traffic; Captain, afterwards Sir J. Hawkins, made a descent on the African coast, and carried away a number of the natives, whom he sold to the Spaniards in Hispaniola; and, although censured by the Queen, it appears that he still continued to prosecute the trade. The French commenced this business about the same time, although Louis XIII. gave the royal sanction with reluctance, and only when soothed by the delusive pretext of converting the Africans to Christianity.” | quote | Bettle, Edward. Notices of Negro Slavery, as Connected with Pennsylvania. 1826. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “laying it to heart,” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “New Orleans is the complete mart of the domestic slave- trade, and the Mississippi is becoming a common highway for this traffic.” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “widow's mite,” | quote | Mark. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “In the scattering of the leaves of life, His page was written more imperfectly,” | quote | Willis, Nathaniel Parker. The Hindoo Mother. 1829. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Why put ye not my money to the exchangers, that at my coming I might have received mine own with usury?” | quote | Matthew. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Wear his immortality as free, Beside the crystal waters,” | quote | Willis, Nathaniel Parker. Aspiration. 1827. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “dark-visaged enthusiasm.” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “the deeds done in the body” | quote | 2 Corinthians. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Woe for those who trample o'er a mind— A deathless thing!—They know not what they do, Or what they deal with—Man perchance may bind The flower his step hath bruised; or light anew The torch he quenches: or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew— But for the soul!—oh! tremble and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there!” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). “The Release of Tasso.” The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: With Memoirs and Notes. 1800. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “our brothers' keepers” | quote | [unknown]. Proverb or saying. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Three thousand wretches immured within the hold of a single ship!” | quote | Lundy, Benjamin (editor). The Genius of Universal Emancipation. 1821 – 1839. | Uncategorized periodical | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “as a school of education for the next,” | quote | Referenced work not found. | ||
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “as the dust of the balance,” | quote | Isaiah. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “do justly and love mercy,” | quote | Micah. | Sacred text | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Woman's eye, In hall or cot, wherever be her home, Hath a heart-spell too holy and too high, To be o'erpraised e'en by her worshipper—Poesy.” | quote | Halleck, Fitz-Greene. “Wyoming.” Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems. 1827. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “weep over a faded flower” | quote | [unknown]. Flowers. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “meant as some record of her fate, and the imagined fluctuation of her thoughts and feelings” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Records of Women and Other Poems. 1828. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “Fostering for his sake A quenchless hope of happiness to be; And, feeling still, her woman spirit strong In the deep faith that lifts from earthly wrong A heavenward glare,” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Records of Women and Other Poems. 1828. | Poetry | |
| Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Essays, Philanthropic and Moral. 1836. | “I bear, I strive, I bow not to the dust, That I may bring thee back no faded form, No bosom chill'd and blighted— And thou art, too, in bonds! yet droop thou not, Oh, my beloved! there is one hopeless lot, and that not ours.” | quote | Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne). Records of Women and Other Poems. 1828. | Poetry | |