Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with... Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 86by Richard Garnett - 1888 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - 1883 - 636 pages
...Kappa lecture at Harvard University, and the event has been described by Dr. James Russell Lowell as " without any former parallel in our literary annals,...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration." Among his audience and followers was Theodore Parker, then an obscure young man, but destined shortly... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1883 - 606 pages
...described by Dr. James Russell Lowell as " without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene lo be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration." Among his audience and followers was Theodore Parker, then an obscure young man, but destined shortly... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 pages
...before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without anyTormer parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent! It was our Yankee version of a lecture by Abelard, our Harvard parallel to the last public appearances... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...American Scholar." Mr. Bronson Alcott heard that address, and James Russell Lowell describes it as " an event without any former parallel in our literary...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " A course of lectures on Human Life was delivered in the following winter ; and, indeed, Emerson... | |
| 1867 - 672 pages
...before the Phi-Betta-Kappa Society at Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event unprecedented in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...disposed to deny. His oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! It was our Yankee version of a lecture by Abelard, our Harvard parallel to the last public appearances... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 454 pages
...disposed to deny. His oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. AVhat crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval,... | |
| 1889 - 532 pages
...for its picturesqueness and inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustered with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! ' This once famous lecture on the American scholar sums up a large portion of Emerson's subsequent teaching.... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 454 pages
...disposed to deny. His oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to bo always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...and wonder with which the audience listened to it." * Lowell says the delivery of this lecture "was an event without any former parallel in our literary...enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent!"2 In December he began a course of lectures on Human Life. There was an introductory and a... | |
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