 O'er England's Abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and...  Works - Page 505by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...feathers from her breast? Or how the fish outbuild her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 482 pages
...feathers from her breast; Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell; Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves...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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pages
...Painting with morn each annual cell f Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads 1 Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and...These temples grew as grows the grass — Art might olicy, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned: And... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 460 pages
...the sacred pine-tree adds 200 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so gcew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the...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... | |
 | 1890 - 848 pages
...past or the past into the present. For example, take Emerson's familiar lines from " The Problem" : "And Nature gladly gave them place. Adopted them into...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Throwing this into the present tense, we should have: "And Nature gladly gives them place, Adopts them... | |
 | William Lefroy - 1891 - 324 pages
...Bernardus valles — monies Benedictus amabat." distant purple moor, seems to have been always there. " O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." And yet this is not, after all, the church of Walter 1'Espec and of William and Waltheof. If we look... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, wiih kindred eye; For, out of Thought's interior f-phere, These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly...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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 508 pages
...fish outbuilt its shell, Painting with morn each annual cell f Such and so grew these holy piles While love and terror laid the tiles ; Earth proudly wears...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. Surely, many utterances which have been accepted as descriptions ought to be interpreted as aspirations,... | |
 | 1892 - 850 pages
...of the Gothic cathedral with its " dim religious light," and, as Emerson beautifully says, — "From out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Perkunas, or Perkuns, frequently appears in the Lithuanian songs published by Schleicher. According... | |
 | 1892 - 880 pages
...of the Gothic cathedral with its "dim religious light," and, as Emerson beautifully says, — "From out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Perkunas, or Perkuns, frequently appears in the Lithuanian songs published by Schleicher. According... | |
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