 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...thought, — no, his thought made him, and made the sun and stars." " Art might obey hut 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... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He buildcd better than he knew. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." " "We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating. Michael Angelo is... | |
 | 1885 - 686 pages
...Andes and with Ararat. N 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 Pcnver that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." The same thought,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...Greek architecture. 412 413 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 Pentecost1... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...to-day his word runneth very quickly ; for it is not his word, but the word to which he has listened. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; For out of thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air." Let me try to describe the mental... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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. 5a Ever the fiery... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 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 sume power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1889 - 256 pages
...expression of the universal joy of men in the great fact of birth. The man was overmastered by humanity. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." What a man's birthday is to him from year to year, if he has any sensibility or imagination, is a capital... | |
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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. 
