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...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. THE reader who has grown out of a motherless boy in spite of the adverse surroundings of childhood...

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...the Iliad, of the Psalms, the ^neid, and the Inferno, — of Prometheus, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; " but in the thought that planned the Hall of Columns, or sculptured the rock temple of Amon, was...

...Iliad, of the Psalms, the ^Eueid, and the Inferno, — of Prometheus, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost. " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; " but in the thought that planned the Hall of Columns, or sculptured the rock temple of Amon, was...

...and the Pharos of Alexandria, will always be quoted as illustrations of this. Emerson has said, — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ! 0 'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of thought's...

...dome, And groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish...

...dome, And groined the aisl s of Christian Kome, Wrought in a nad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free : He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Emerson. A spiritual empire there embodied stood ; The Roman Church there met me face to face ; Ages,...

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