 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
 | John Tyndall - 1894 - 470 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 pages
...Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pvramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends,...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... | |
 | William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, To g?ze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the...them into her race, And granted them an equal date NVith Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass.... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn her 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... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 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...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... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell ; Or how the sacred pine tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew...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 plann'd, And the same... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pages
...feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Fainting with morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. 207 These temples grew as grows the grass — Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent... | |
 | Robert Frothingham - 1922 - 212 pages
...abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into...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... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - 1923 - 888 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...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... | |
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