 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 than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.  Early and recent conditions - Page 156by Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885Full view - About this book
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pages
...concerns Michelangelo: The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication... | |
 | David Boucher - 1997 - 364 pages
...Emerson (1803-1882), The hand that rounded Peter's dome, and groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The Problem', Poems in Complete Works (London, Routledge, 1903). from the main danger that was feared... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pages
...Emerson wrote: (175) The hand mat rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, ... He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Of architectural masterpieces throughout the world, Emerson declared: (176) Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | Gail Marshall - 1998 - 268 pages
...House, 1949). Appropriately, the epigraph to Harbron's book is a couplet from Emerson's The Problem': 'He builded better than he knew;- / The conscious stone to beauty grew' (lines 23-4). 33 Mrs Oliphant, Dress (London: Macmillan, 1878), p. 68. 34 St John and Craig refer to... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...Milton, Jonson, Marvell. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pages
...introduced in "Memory": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Frost's references to this poem are shrewd and consequential. The implication in "The Problem" is that... | |
 | 1905 - 986 pages
...FRANCES AM TERRY, Secretary. 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 btiilded better than he knew; — WORK OF THE CHAPTERS Oakland Chapter (Oakland, California) held a... | |
 | Gordon Hayward - 2001 - 238 pages
...place during the cold season. BUILDING POOLS AND FOUNTAINS CHAPTER TEN SETTING SCULPTURES AND BENCHES He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) JUST BECAUSE GRANITE STANDING STONES, SCULPTURE, AND benches in your... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 pages
...Emerson's "The Problem": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 pages
...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...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish... | |
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