| Mary Andrews Denison - 1860 - 428 pagina’s
...diplomacy of that day. It is seldom that we go back of the spots and the hours of which it has been said, " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." But there are periods, places, and characters connected directly and inseparably with The... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1876 - 476 pagina’s
...lirst slain foeman. " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their Hag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood And fired the shot heard round the world. " The ground upon which the monument stands was given to tho town by Dr. Ripley in 1834,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pagina’s
...MONUMENT. APRIL 19, 1836. BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, be it ours to embellish thy pillow With everything beauteous that the world. The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined... | |
| Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pagina’s
...immortal verse t — " By the rude hridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Or the 4th of July Ode read at Concord in 1857, with its grandly poetic opening image?... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pagina’s
...Hyperbole.' — Hyperbole is the enlargement of an object beyond its natural and proper dimensions: Here once the embattled fanners stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. — Emerson. So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell Grew darker at their frown. —... | |
| Adam Gifford - 1889 - 304 pagina’s
...sings it : — "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, , "Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, "Here once the embattled fanners stood, "And fired the shot heard round the world." In this Concord retirement Emerson has lived ever since 1832, dedicating his life to thought and study.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pagina’s
...commemoration of the Concord Fight. For this occasion Emerson wrote the hymn made ever memorable by the lines : — " Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." The last line of this hymn quickens the heart-beats of every American, and the whole hymn... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pagina’s
...poet has sung : — " By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled fanners stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. " The foe long since in silence slept ; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the... | |
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