| James Freeman Clarke - 1890 - 538 pages
...thought's interior sphere, just as the pine tree adds a myriad of new leaves to its old arms every year. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the slirine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." § 5. Christian... | |
| Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. 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. Ever the fiery Pentecost... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...thought, — no, his thought made him, and made the sun and stars." " Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Hope is at the bottom of every essay of Emerson's as it was at the bottom of Pandora's box : — "I... | |
| Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 260 pages
...To gaze upon the Pyramids ; 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." This came to the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...thought, — no, his thought made him, and made the sun and stars." " Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Hope is at the bottom of every essay of Emerson's as it was at the bottom of Pandora's box : — "I... | |
| Sir Banister Fletcher - 1892 - 28 pages
...true than the poet knew : " 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." A cathedral without groined vaulting and so without the system of buttresses and flying buttresses... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...thought, — no, his thought made him, and made the sun and stars. " " Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Hope is at the bottom of every essay of Emerson's as it was at the bottom of Pandora's box : — "I... | |
| 1894 - 508 pages
...inscription : " Ralph Waldo Emerson. Born in Boston, May 25, 1803. Died in Concord, April 27, 1882. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned.*' The tablet is eighteen inches long and twelve wide, and has a border of rustic twigs. It was cast in New... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1895 - 604 pages
...his own poem; and, were they volumes, they would not form a truer or more comprehensive biography. "The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." The boy for whom the poem "Threnody" is Emerson's beautiful and pathetic lament lies buried close beside.... | |
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