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... The North American Review - Page 582edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
| Thomas Carlyle - Authors, American - 1883 - 394 pages
...Lowell speaks of the impression made by this remarkable discourse. It "was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...dissent ! It was our Yankee version of a lecture by Abel .ml, our Harvard parallel to the last public appearances of Schelling." — My Study Windows,... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - Transcendentalism (New England) - 1883 - 344 pages
...The oration was given at Harvard University. Lowell has described it as " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of eager approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent!" The theme was " The American Scholar." The... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1883 - 632 pages
...Harvard University, and the event has been described by Dr. James Russell Lowell as " without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration." Among his audience and followers was Theodore Parker, then an obscure young man, but destined shortly... | |
| James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1884 - 450 pages
...Cambridge, some thirty years ago, was an event without any former parallel in our literary aunals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its...Harvard parallel to the last public appearances of Schelling. We said that the Transcendental Movement was the protestant spirit of Puritanism seeking... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...profound attention and interest. Mr. Lowell says of it, that its delivery "was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1886 - 568 pages
...(quoted in Holmes' " Life of Emerson," from Lowell's essay on Emerson), " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1889 - 572 pages
...(quoted in Holmes' " Life of Emerson," from Lowell's essay on Emerson), " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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 - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 pages
...on " The American Scholar." The delivery of this, says Mr. Lowell, " was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent." For a little time, after Margaret Fuller, he edited the " Dial," a magazine devoted to literature,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1887 - 300 pages
...electrified the little public of the university. This is described by Lowell as "an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what grim silence of foregone dissent! " To Concord came many kindred spirits, drawn by Emerson's magnetic... | |
| James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 406 pages
...Lowell says, " was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene always to be treasured in the memory for its picturesqueness and...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " l The scholar's duties, Emerson said, are all comprised in self-trust. He is to feel himself inspired... | |
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