 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...Byron. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisl s of Christian Kome, Wrought in a nad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free : He...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...he could rot free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Knowest thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and...grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone; town, And morning opes... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 616 pages
...awe. ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free. He...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of those Medieval Christians; and until... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...EXTRACTS. THE hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He...than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. — The Problem. OH, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome ; And... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell f Or how the sacred pine-tree... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, * Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He...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... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1882 - 286 pages
...:— "The band that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Bome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free —...better than he knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew ; Such and so grew these holy piles While love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 pages
...woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free ; He...grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...woe : The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Gome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He...grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...and woe: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Home Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He...grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with... | |
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Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better... 
