 | Mary Andrews Denison - 1860 - 428 pages
...diplomacy of that day. It is seldom that we go back of the spots and the hours of which it has been said, " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." But there are periods, places, and characters connected directly and inseparably with The... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1876 - 476 pages
...lirst slain foeman. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their Hag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood And fired the shot heard round the world. " The ground upon which the monument stands was given to tho town by Dr. Ripley in 1834,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...MONUMENT. APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, be it ours to embellish thy pillow With everything beauteous that the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...immortal verse t — " By the rude hridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Or the 4th of July Ode read at Concord in 1857, with its grandly poetic opening image?... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...Hyperbole.' — Hyperbole is the enlargement of an object beyond its natural and proper dimensions: Here once the embattled fanners stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. — Emerson. So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell Grew darker at their frown. —... | |
 | Adam Gifford - 1889 - 304 pages
...sings it : — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, , "Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, "Here once the embattled fanners stood, "And fired the shot heard round the world." In this Concord retirement Emerson has lived ever since 1832, dedicating his life to thought and study.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...commemoration of the Concord Fight. For this occasion Emerson wrote the hymn made ever memorable by the lines : — " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." The last line of this hymn quickens the heart-beats of every American, and the whole hymn... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...poet has sung : — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. " The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the... | |
 | John Swinton - 1894 - 514 pages
...stand they made at Concord as defenders of liberty, even before the Declaration of Independence : " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard 'round the world." In the "War for the Union," also, during Lincoln's Presidency, it was our farmers who formed the backbone... | |
 | John Swinton - 1895 - 564 pages
...stand they made at Concord as defenders of liberty, even before the Declaration of Independence : " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard 'round the world." In the "War for the Union," also, during Lincoln's Presidency, it was our farmers who formed the backbone... | |
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood And fired the shot heard round the world. 
