An Outline Sketch of American LiteratureChautauqua Press, 1887 - 287 pages |
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... Phi- Beta Kappa address at Harvard on the American Scholar , 1837 , and his address in 1838 before the Divinity School at Cambridge . Ralph Waldo Em- erson ( 1803-1882 ) was the prophet of the sect , and Concord was its Mecca ; but the ...
... Phi- Beta Kappa address at Harvard on the American Scholar , 1837 , and his address in 1838 before the Divinity School at Cambridge . Ralph Waldo Em- erson ( 1803-1882 ) was the prophet of the sect , and Concord was its Mecca ; but the ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa address at Cambridge , on the American Scholar , electrified the little public of the university . This is de- scribed by Lowell as " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals , a scene to be always ...
... Phi Beta Kappa address at Cambridge , on the American Scholar , electrified the little public of the university . This is de- scribed by Lowell as " an event without any former parallel in our literary annals , a scene to be always ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa lecture on the American Scholar in the college chapel and Wendell Phillips's speech on the Murder of Lovejoy in Faneuil Hall . Lowell , whose description of the impression produced by In the former of these famous ...
... Phi Beta Kappa lecture on the American Scholar in the college chapel and Wendell Phillips's speech on the Murder of Lovejoy in Faneuil Hall . Lowell , whose description of the impression produced by In the former of these famous ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa Society , which was the first of that long line of capital occasional poems which Holmes has been spinning for half a century with no sign of fatigue and with scarcely any falling off in freshness ; poems read or spoken ...
... Phi Beta Kappa Society , which was the first of that long line of capital occasional poems which Holmes has been spinning for half a century with no sign of fatigue and with scarcely any falling off in freshness ; poems read or spoken ...
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... Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge in 1843 , he had his laugh at the " Orphic odes " and runes " of the bedlamite seer and bard of mystery 66 " Who rides a beetle which he calls a ' sphinx . ' And O what questions asked in club - foot ...
... Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge in 1843 , he had his laugh at the " Orphic odes " and runes " of the bedlamite seer and bard of mystery 66 " Who rides a beetle which he calls a ' sphinx . ' And O what questions asked in club - foot ...
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Page 13 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 56 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 193 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 203 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 135 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 203 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 56 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 99 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Page 49 - Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
Page 207 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than he has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun?