 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. The Problem. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. He builded better than he knew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hymn.... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 pages
...government and human rights; ignorant of the beauty of the edifice which he was rearing. He wrought in 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... | |
 | 1857 - 448 pages
...men's hearts tremble, and their souls leap up in thanksgiving, is the child of enthusiasm and rapture. "Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves and feathers from her breast t Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting, with morn, each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 734 pages
...receiving. So shall our life-work be, to our possible degree, like that of Michael Angelo. " The hands that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stones to beauty grew." May these creations reveal to us anew the Infinite Wisdom, and may the thought... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1859 - 326 pages
...divinity is on him. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And grojned the aisles of Christian Eome, Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow !" And so, through these Symbols glimmer hints of deeper meanings — sacred suspicions of divinity... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1861 - 788 pages
...her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. The hand that rounded PBTER'S dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sincerity ; Himself from GOD he could not free ; He buil.h <1 better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.' itself to us, not Shakspearc's,... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...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 Kome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | American periodicals - 1863 - 774 pages
...right. This faculty is indeed something that looks as if its possessor were made in the Divine image ! ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groined the...Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God be could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conicious stone to beauty grew.' EMEHSON.... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1864 - 312 pages
...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... | |
 | Bible - 1901 - 834 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
