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... Emerson: And Other Essays - Page 20by John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...essay on Emerson), " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " Lowell was then a college senior, and surely caught some of Emerson's inspiration for his early... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...Mr. Lowell, " was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent." For a little time, after Margaret Fuller, he edited the " Dial," a magazine devoted to literature,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. AVhat crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent! " This great effect was no doubt partly due to the Fourth of July quality pervading the oration, which... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 408 pages
...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...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 - 1890 - 408 pages
...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...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 - 1890 - 410 pages
...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....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... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...described by Lowell as " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what grim silence of foregone dissent!" To Concord come many kindred spirits, drawn by Emerson's magnetic... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...extraordinary. " It was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals — a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...aisles ! what windows clustering with eager heads !" (Lowell). Dr. Holmes called the oration " our intellectual Declaration of Independence." It gave... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 408 pages
...annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. AVhat crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...its delivery " was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent!" Mr. Cooke says truly of this oration, that nearly all his leading ideas found expression in it. This... | |
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