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802 HARRIET HOSMER.
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St . Anthony , she went among the Indians , much , to their surprise and amusement , and brought away with her a pipe , presented by
the were mountain chief the , , spectators in never token before with of amity undertaken her . courage She also b and y a ag achieved female ility , that and the they so ascent deli insisted ghted of a
, upon called knowing after her . her In name a visit , that to St the . Louis mountain last summer might , thenceforth Miss Hosmer be
found that her rustic admirers had been as good as their word , and " Hosmer's Height" remains in evidence of " the little lady ' s "
ambition On her and return courage to . St . Louis , where her prolonged absence had
created no little uneasiness , she remained but a short time , and bidding This was farewell in to the her summer kind fri of ends 1851 , retraced . No her sooner steps had homewards Harriet .
Hosmer reached home than she set to work to model an ideal bust of Hesper loying , her continuing intervals her of leisure anatomical and studies rest in with reading her riding cousin , and and
insp boating aims emp ired realised . by Now those which followe visions haunt d a of the perio success d of , and of earnest purpose enthusiastic work fulfilled , cheered , irant , of , hi and and gh young asp ,
throw a halo , round the youthful days of genius , which lends a color to the whole career . As Lowell wisely and poetically says : —
" Great dreams preclude low ends . " Better to ire and failthan not aspire at all . Better to know
the dream asp and the fever , , and the awakening , if it must be , than to pass from the cradle to the grave on the level plane of content
there with , things cannot as be they genius are . without There may aspiration be asp ; iration and where without genius genius is ,
backed by industry and perseverance , the aspiration of one period will meet its realisation in another .
of To art go ancient to Rome and , to modern make herself , to study acquainted and work with as all the its masters treasures of
both periods , had studied and worked before her , this was now our youthful artist ' s ambitionand all the while she labored , heart and
, beneath soul , at Hesper her hand , the , as first a creation young mother of her genius watches , watching step by its step growth the
those progress thousan of her d hopes first-born and ; kneading fearswhich in turn with by the turn plastic , charm clay and all
, of agitate marble all was who soug aspire ht . and At found length , and , the broug clay model ht home fini to shed the , shed a block in
the garden , hitherto appropriated to dissecting purposes , but now ful fitted maiden up as a short studio of . stature Here , with and her delicate own in small make hands anything , the youth but
robust in health , with chisel , and mallet blocked out , the bust , and subsequentlwith , rasp and filefinished it to the last degree of
manipulative y , perfection . Months , and months it took , and hours
and days of quiet toil and patience , but those wings of genius , peiv
802 Harriet Hosmer.
802 HARRIET HOSMER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/14/
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