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
| Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 228 pages
...or the American Scholar," August 31, 1837. "It was," says Mr. Lowell, "an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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,... | |
| Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 236 pages
...or the American Scholar," August 31, 1837. "It was," says Mr. Lowell, "an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. AVhat crowded and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval,... | |
| Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...impression. The first took his audience by storm. It was " an event," says Lowell, " without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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,... | |
| Choice literature - 1888 - 632 pages
...impression. The first took his audience by storm. It was "an event," says Lowell1, " without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 850 pages
...attracted so much attention. MiLowell says of it that ' its delivery was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...memory for its picturesqueness and its inspiration. ' This grand oration was our intellectual declaration of independence. The orator did_ not spare his... | |
| James Russell Lowell - European literature - 1890 - 410 pages
...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...Harvard parallel to the last public appearances of Schelling. I said that the Transcendental Movement was the protestant spirit of Puritanism seeking... | |
| 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....Harvard parallel to the last public appearances of Schelling. I said that the Transcendental Movement was the protestant spirit of Puritanism seeking... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...attracted so much attention. Mr Lowell says of it that ' 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 ite inspiration.' This grand oration was our intellectual declaration of independence. The orator did... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 296 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 come many kindred spirits, drawn by Emerson's magnetic... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...Thinking, or the American Scholar." Its effect was extraordinary. " It was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals — a scene to be...aisles ! what windows clustering with eager heads !" (Lowell). Dr. Holmes called the oration " our intellectual Declaration of Independence." It gave... | |
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