...his oration on " Man Thinking, or the American Scholar," August 31, 1837. "It was," says Mr. Lowell, "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,...

...produced a profound impression. The first took his audience by storm. It was "an event," says Lowell1, " without any former parallel in our literary annals,...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration." " II has," wrote Theodore Parker, who also heard it, " made a great noise ; " and he calls it " the...

...produced a profound impression. The first took his audience by storm. It was " an event," says Lowell, " without any former parallel in our literary annals,...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration." " 1 1 has," wrote Theodore Parker, who also heard it, "made agréât noise;" and he calls it "the noblest,...

...Few anniversary addresses have attracted so much attention. MiLowell says of it that ' its delivery was an event without any former parallel in our literary...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. ' This grand oration was our intellectual declaration of independence. The orator did_ not spare his...

...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...

...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...

...Few anniversary addresses have attracted so much attention. Mr Lowell says of it that ' its delivery was an event without any former parallel in our literary...treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and ite inspiration.' This grand oration was our intellectual declaration of independence. The orator did...

...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 be always treasured hi the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles, what...

...Society an oration on " Man Thinking, or the American Scholar." Its effect was extraordinary. " It was an event without any former parallel in our literary...aisles ! what windows clustering with eager heads !" (Lowell). Dr. Holmes called the oration " our intellectual Declaration of Independence." It gave...

...American Scholar, electrified the little 'public of the university. This is described by Lowell as " an event without any former parallel in our literary...aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what grim silence of foregone dissent! " To Concord come many kindred spirits, drawn by Emerson's magnetic...