...countries. The fact is that this work illustrates, as few others do, Emerson's fine lines : Out of the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible...burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The Bunyan literature now constitutes a library by itself, while every year new editions appear in still...

...bosom holds." 'One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree, Declares the close of its green century." "The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought with a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The...

...the figures have an excellent dignity and vitality. The same is true of Peter and the Cripple. And "out from the heart of nature rolled, the burdens of the Bible old." Can one tell of anybody else who can paint a prophet so well up to the character and can paint Bible...

...thing that man may keep. — Chaucer. That mercy I to others show, That mercy shown to me. — Pope. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. — Emerson. The childhood shows the man As the morning shows the day. — Milton. Know then this truth...

...that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and...

...these grand lines from the "Problem:" "Out of the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's...tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." I had just withdrawn from the Presbyterian ministry, on account of doubts and a tendency to liberal...