 These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.  The Literary World - Page 2861894Full view - About this book
 | 740 pages
...lines develop* our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grasi Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere. These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pages
...lines derelope our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, bat not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew aa grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Andes and with Ararat. •v These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Even the fiery Pentecost... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 456 pages
...truth ; which built that heroic architecture, overmastering therewith the sense and soul of man : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned : And the same Power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt therein." But the piety... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows tho grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that rcar'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
 | 1855 - 504 pages
...— men who earnestly believed that through them the Divine mind was pleased to accomplish itself? " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." But the world is full of the mischief and discomfiture wrought by those who have sought for the inspiration... | |
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