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Emerson: And Other Essays - Page 20
by John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 247 pages
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American Literature 1607-1885, Volume 1

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...
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Famous American Authors

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,...
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Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essays

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...
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Literary Essays: A Moosehead journal

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...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary essays

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...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

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...
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American Literature

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...
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Literary essays

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs

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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