Philosophiæ Quæstor, Or, Days in ConcordLothrop, 1885 - 59 pages |
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Page 5 - ... QUESTOR: or Days in Concord. By JULIA R. ANAGNOS. Boston : D. Lothrop and Company. This is a little book — only sixty pages — but it is entirely unique in its plan and style. Its purpose is to give an outline sketch of two seasons of the School of Philosophy. To secure this purpose, the author has taken as "a sort of half heroine the shadowy figure of a young girl ; " and, as seen to her, the proceedings of the school are sketched. Most of the persons and places have fictitious names ; Mr....
Page 23 - ... waked at Concord, generous France sent her warm-blooded legions, her gallant cavaliers, so she sends to-day to Concord a chevalier preux whose generous ardor wakes the native hearts to yet warmer, love for their great Sage,* whose ghost beckons its worshippers from afar. But we anticipate. Nestoria discussed Milton at the School, and a severe tournament followed her mild address. Milton was arraigned as the poet of Calvinism by a new-comer, who was, of course, rebuked by the philosophers on behalf...
Page 31 - As when a father dies, his children draw About the empty hearth, their loss to cheat With uttered praise and love, and oft repeat His all-familiar words with whispered awe, The honored habit of his daily law, Not for his sake, but theirs whose feebler feet Need still that guiding lamp, whose faith less sweet Misses that tempered patience without flaw ; So do we gather round thy vacant chair, In thine own elm-roofed, amber-rivered town, Master and father! For the love we bear, Not for thy fame's sake,...
Page 26 - ... had caught the music rather than the words, the sentiment rather than the thought, so with the thirsting spirits at Hillside Chapel. That is the impression left with one by the over-rhapsodic but touching little book in which Mrs. Anagnos, daughter of Julia Ward Howe, described her days in Concord. "The most perfect courtesy, and a beautiful, sincere ignoring of inequality, prevailed in the school. The Alpine summits kindly conversed with the little hills.
Page 32 - The fair Rebecca's devout and loving tribute was listened to with tenderest thoughts and tearful eyes, and all hearts responded with a tuneful consonance to her gentle, ardent words. As Eudoxia turned her eyes toward the casement, that the passing breeze might dry her rising tears, the birds and boughs which Emerson had loved so well said and sang to her : EMERSON. The moonlight of thy silver brow...
Page 37 - Sunday steals in with its startling, all-pervasive stillness, eeeming the spectre of the group of days. She lays her finger on the busy hand that relaxes not, and says, ' Toil not : for I am come. Therefore be happy. ' Van Antwerp's eloquence flocks the little Anglican sanctuary. He has brought his message from the far South, and it is a celestial one. He fully responded to the question which is ever in the soul regarding the Hereafter.
Page 5 - ... and not of an exact scientific history. What this slenderly-drawn personage saw and heard, in looking on as a silent spectator at one of the great dramas of modern thought and intellectual aspiration, has been told as simply as the nature of the occasions described would permit, and I shall be very glad if the portrayal (which I offer more in the sense of a free-hand 5 drawing than of a matured dissertation) proves of interest to the reader.
Page 10 - Se"rieux proceeded to develop his philosophic doctrine of the Trinity like an opening rose. It was such a beautiful rose, and offered to the Professor's hearers with such an angelic sweetness, that even the Unitarians in the audience did not like to refuse it, although they could not feel quite sure that- the exposition was wholly free from theology, as its honored author sincerely affirmed. Le Se"rieux was a man with all the dignity of study fresh about him.
Page 51 - Athanatos avouched for the Testament, so new even in its present age (and only just beginning, like a century plant which should bloom once in a thousand years, to cast off, sleepily rousing to its vast awakening, the husks of misconception — the tangles of souls sent to a hell, did not the good Creator forbid one, through linguistic ignorance), left by his Master to His world.
Page 6 - I offer more in the sense of a free-hand 5 drawing than of a matured dissertation) proves of interest to the reader. The picturesque elements which the school presents have struck me as only requiring a frame to complete them, and this frame I have carved with a light hand, and without the addition of superflous ornaments or gilding. Hoping, then, that, as all thinkers have earnestly watched the very important developments which have been...