...treasured in the memory for its intellectual picturesqueness and its inspiration. What Revolution crowde(} and breathless aisles, what windows clustering with...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! " The address was a plea for generous culture, the study of nature and books and men, for purposes...

...Emerson. His "Phi Beta Kappa Oration," delivered at Cambridge on 31st August, 1837, was, says Lowell, "our Yankee version of a lecture by Abelard, our Harvard parallel to the last public appearances of Schelling." Lowell, in fact, very soon forgot his boyish dissent, and came to regard Emerson with a...

...marks an epoch in American thinking and writing. It was an event, says Lowell, " without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its intellectual picturesqueness and its inspiration. What Revolution crow(je(j an(j breathless aisles,...

...meditation on the printed report of what he said. Lowell declared that " it was an event without any former parallel in our literary annals — a scene to be always treasured in the memory for picturesqueness and inspiration." A leader had arisen who was to give a new direction to the thoughts...

...literary circles. Lowell thirty years after characterized it as ' an event without any former parallel ill our literary annals, a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueuess and its inspiration.' Holmes called it 'the declaration of independence of American...

...in the memory for its intellectual picturesqueness and its inspiration. What Revolution crowded anci breathless aisles, what windows clustering with eager heads, what enthusiasm of approval, what grim silfcice of foregone dissent ! " The address was a plea for generous culture, the study of nature and...

...not by any means the beginning of the movement, was, says Mr. Lowell, ' an event without any former parallel in our literary annals, a scene to be always...by Abelard, our Harvard parallel to the last public appearance of Schelling.' l And in another place Mr. Lowell wrote: 'We used to walk in from the country...

...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...of approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent ! "« Dr. Holmes records in his Life of Emerson that rarely has any one of the annual addresses before...

...delivery of this address was a scene to be always treasured in the memory for its picturesqueiiess and its inspiration. What crowded and breathless aisles,...approval, what grim silence of foregone dissent." And what was the message of Emerson that so attracted the attention of men? The keynote is struck in...

...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...