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" 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... "
Alph Waldo Emerson - Page 91
by Alexander Ireland - 1882
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Annual Register, Volume 124

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...
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The Annual Register, Volume 124

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 101

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...with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent! It was our Yankee version of a lecture by Abelard, our Harvard parallel...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 18

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...with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " A course of lectures on Human Life was delivered in the following...
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The North British Review, Volume 47

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...
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My Study Windows

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...with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! It was our Yankee version of a lecture by Abelard, our Harvard parallel...
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My Study Windows

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,...
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My Study Windows

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...mixed confusion, consternation, surprise, and wonder with which the audience listened to it." * Lowell says the delivery of this lecture "was an event without...with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent!"2 In December he began a course of lectures on Human Life. There...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...confusion, consternation, surprise, and wonder with which the audience listened to it." 1 Lowell sayjsjthe delivery of this lecture "was an event without any...windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm pf approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " ยป ' In December he began a course of lectures...
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