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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. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 349
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Orthodoxy: Its Truth and Errors

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...
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Echoes of Life Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry and Song: A Choice Collection of ...

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley

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...
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The Real and Ideal in Literature

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...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley: Two Memoirs

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...
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Recent Development of Early Renaissance in England

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...
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The Accepted Plans

Cathedral of St. John the Divine - 1892 - 26 pages
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... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John ...

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...
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The Literary World, Volume 25

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...
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The Unitarian, Volume 10

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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