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" O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes... "
Emerson as a Poet - Page 36
by Joel Benton - 1883 - 134 pages
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...her old leaves new myriads I Such and so grew these holy piles Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew aa grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

1845 - 452 pages
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Our next specimen is from " The Sphinx." 9* " The babe, by its mother Lies bathed in joy, Glide its...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into ner race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. " These Temples grew as grams the gran. Art might obey, but not surpass. The pastille Master lent hit...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into Tier race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. " These Temples grew as grows the grats. Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. •v These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...old leaves new myriads'? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his...
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A Second Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...stature of the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work is that of " Paradise Lost," where earth and heaven appear contending for the mastery —...
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Modern Literature and Literary Men: Being a Second Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adapted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work is that of " Paradise Lost," where earth and heaven appear contending for the mastery —...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 1

1851 - 902 pages
...American poet : — ' O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends with kindred eye ; For Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.' Read, doubtless, Pope must always be — if not for his poetry and passion, yet for his elegance, his...
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