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" 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. "
Overland Monthly - Page 529
1885
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71

740 pages
...aptly would Emerson's exquisite lines develop* our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grasi Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master...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 place....
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

1868 - 738 pages
...exquisite 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 place,...
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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
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey...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 Girds...
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The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, Volume 4

Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey,...his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." The poem " The Sphinx," too, for original statement of a hackneyed theme, and for the subtile art of...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew aa grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass....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...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...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 hand To the voM Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. •v These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey...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 Girds...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...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 Girds...
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 11

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 pages
...equally "holy piles"--all the work of the power above us. "These temples grew as grows the grass j Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand, To the vast soul thai o'er him planned \ And the same power that reared thestirine, Bestrode the tnbes that knelt within."...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

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 Pentecost Girds...
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