Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe... Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 450by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...these burning protests against falsehood and pretension and the wrongs done humanity were written. They came — " Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." If counterfeit, then the test of genuineness no more exists. The attempt to set Carlyle's books, the... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...co\vled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which 1 could not on me endure 'I Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Koine, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could rot free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
..."—Essays, pp. 239, 240, 241—242. He says the same thing in yet more rhythmic notes : " Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — Tlie canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1872 - 360 pages
...vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Out from the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe." This is the way in which inspiration comes. THE TBUE IDEA OP INSPIRATION. How can the finite mind communicate... | |
| William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; i0 Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic...from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, i5 Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning... | |
| Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1882 - 252 pages
...natural religion, though often perverted. " Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cone below — The canticles of love and woe. * * * * " The word unto the prophets spoken Was writ... | |
| 1882 - 82 pages
...open minds feel their kinship with forms of faith older than that into which they were born ; that " Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; " and that " One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost." [From a Discourse... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...strains, or pensive smiles Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Gome Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...strains, or pensive smiles Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Home Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
| Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 pages
...uses and respects his art may be judged by this extract from his poem of " The Problem." Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias...love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome 34 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew,... | |
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