 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...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 - Theology - 1865 - 372 pages
...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 - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 - American literature - 1865 - 682 pages
...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 - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 674 pages
...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 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 Rome, Wrought in a snd sincerity ; 306 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 367 He buildcl bei 'er tlmn he knew; — The conscious »tone... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarianism - 1866 - 560 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Tip from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian I tome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarianism - 1866 - 540 pages
...nnd woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the r-isles of Christian Bome, "Wrought in n sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better thau he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound truth.... | |
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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. 
