 | Fashion - 740 pages
...an eqnal date With Andes and with Ararat, The hand that ronnded Peter's dome, And groined the isles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He bnilded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." When we speak,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...below, — The canticles of love and wo. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself...he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 458 pages
...hand. The first is from " The Problem." " 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 buildcd better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 584 pages
...below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself...he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew. " Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's ne»t Of leaves, and feathers... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 452 pages
...hand. The first is from " The Problem." " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself...he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 564 pages
...below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself...he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew. " Know'sl thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers... | |
 | Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...botch-work. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of ancient Rome Wrought with a sad sincerity — Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." If Michael Angelo thus built for immortality, how earnestly should... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself...he could not free; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and feathers... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Church - 1848 - 44 pages
...reverence, and laid with religious awe. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself...he could not free. He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of... | |
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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. 
