The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. Initial Studies in American Letters - Seite 110von Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 282 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Swinton - 1864 - 312 Seiten
...something higher than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow !" And so, through these Symbols glimmer hints of deeper meanings — sacred suspicions of divinity... | |
| 1901 - 834 Seiten
...will find the beautiful. " Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity." And the Jove of Phidias, and Peter's dome, and the groined aisles of Christian Rome, are witnesses... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 Seiten
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God lie could not free; He builded better tlmn he knew; — The conscious... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Roue, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
| 1865 - 594 Seiten
...herein. Many times have been applied to the true teachers of our land those simple lines (p. 18) : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He huilded hetter than he knew — v _Vol. II. ^rSVoV'-f 'sá**B4--'4-- JXJ and Uiomc Education, AXD OFriCLAL... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 372 Seiten
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, .And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such majestic forms, — looked them in his face before he... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers. The Batlle-FieU. KALPH WAtDO EMERSON. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. The Problem. He builded better than he knew. ibid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 682 Seiten
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such majestic forms, — looked them in his face before he... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 Seiten
...States and the authors of new creeds seem unconscious of their high destiny. "The hand that raised St. Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian...than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." But, among those immortal signers of the Declaration, there was one on whom the spirit of prophecy... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 Seiten
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe; The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a snd sincerity ; 306 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 367 He buildcl bei 'er tlmn he knew; — The conscious »tone... | |
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