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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. "
Anniversary of the American Unitarian Association - Page 25
by American Unitarian Association - 1876
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71

740 pages
...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...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

1868 - 738 pages
...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...
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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
...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...
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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
...upon the Pyramids. 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." The poem " The Sphinx," too, for original statement of a hackneyed theme, and for the subtile art of...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...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...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...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...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...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...
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Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1

Theodore Parker - 1852 - 456 pages
...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...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20

1852 - 572 pages
...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." The poet who gave us these lines speaks farther on in his poem of a great mind that rolled out wisdom...
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The Harvard Magazine, Volume 1

1855 - 576 pages
...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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