 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Each and All. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Pliidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. iKd. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1884 - 392 pages
...brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of Nature roll'd The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free... | |
 | 1920 - 562 pages
...walls, these all shall speak to us, for they were born of his purpose, they came here from his design. "Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias wrought. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad... | |
 | Arthur Versluis - 1993 - 364 pages
...transcendence. It is no accident that Johnson made Emerson's lines the epigraph for his entire series: Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. He continues in the Emersonian current, "The ethics of Confucius and the piety of the Vedas are to... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pages
...Calvinism" and his exultant, almost Faustian determination upon "SelfReliance" can find to his chagrin that "Out from the heart of nature rolled / The burdens of the Bible old."16 Yet among many antinomian American writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, even... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 pages
...Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove...burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...these grand lines from the "Problem:" "Out of the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's...tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." I had just withdrawn from the Presbyterian ministry, on account of doubts and a tendency to liberal... | |
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Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe... 
