 | Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 182 pages
...canticles of love and woe. . . . 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 power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time,... | |
 | Harry Quilter - 1880 - 220 pages
...VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " 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 plauned, And the same power that built the shrine O'er the tribes that knelt therein." — Emerson.... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 176 pages
...canticles of love and woe. . . . 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 power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. r«t! plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery... | |
 | 1882 - 376 pages
...Spencer, remains in their pages as essentially unanalyzed and unscientific as in Emerson's verses : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." If we must have... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1882 - 240 pages
...be intellectually passive and active at the same time, except occasionally in the sense in which " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Occasionally. Here, I come to speak of a master-trait of our friend, a ground principle in his mental... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - 1883 - 290 pages
...uses. The prophets were, in such lofty visionings, under an influence beyond their consciousness. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." All other passages claimed in support of the notion of an infallible Bible fail on the witness-stand.... | |
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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 power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. 
