 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Phidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. Jbid. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. fb:d. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. ft:.!. Good-bye, proud world... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Unitarianism - 1875 - 538 pages
...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 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 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 - Architecture - 1875 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 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...Painting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...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...how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn ench anunal cell; O! how the sacred pine-tree adds 200 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. To her old leaves new myriads... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 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...; — 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 outbuilt... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Theology - 1876 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 pages
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 532 pages
...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—... | |
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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. 
