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
| James Freeman Clarke - 1875 - 538 Seiten
...flame, Up from the burning: cone below, Thu canticles of love and woe. The band that rounded I'etcr's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome* Wrought...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound truth. The Bible is not an exceptional book iu this, that it... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 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, VOL. XIV. 6 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than... | |
| Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - 1875 - 622 Seiten
...master-workman had his day. He developed his primitive forms directly and honestly from practical necessity; " He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." His successors, unembarrassed by knowledge of other styles, avoided his obvious errors, profited by... | |
| Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 Seiten
...Converse with the Eternal ! Let us pause, St. Peter's ! at thy plinth, before the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." [Emer son's " Problem." CANTO II. CANTO n. TO ask why thou wert rear'd — why men have made A God... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast !Or how the fish... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 Seiten
...Like the voleano's tongue of flame, Up from the bnrning com below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ; Or how the fish... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1876 - 528 Seiten
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound truth. The Bible is not ail exceptional book in this, that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 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...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st tliou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
| 1887 - 532 Seiten
...Emerson says in these fine lines of his, which Mr. Quilter quotes in the preface to this volume : — ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from Cod he could not free, He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.' ART. XL—... | |
| George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 Seiten
...of free government and human rights, ignorant of the beauty of the edifice which he was rearing. He Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The book of Otis was reprinted in England. Lord Mansfield, who had read it, rebuked those who spoke of... | |
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