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" The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 356
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1848 - 580 pages
...stone of which was carved with reverence, and laid with religious awe. ' The hand that rounded Peter'a dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew.' So that we repeat to-day, in...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1848 - 580 pages
...with religious awe. ' The hnnd that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.' So that we repeat to-day, in these...
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Notes and Queries

1887 - 698 pages
...Turn not aside, but make the greater haste To join and straighten them. CE ardour needs. One certainty Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than be knew; The conscious stone to beaut; grew. А нон. HECOED9 OP CELTIC OCCUPATION...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 5

David Thomas - 448 pages
...came Like the volcano's tongue of flame Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free." (4.) Forms of society, embodying the grand principles of godliness, and of its cognate humanity. Secondly...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 20

1852 - 572 pages
...Priestley purchase a work of his own and admire it, thinking it was the production of an unknown author ? " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. The passive Master lent his hand...
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Flight of Years: A Discourse in the First Independent Church, Baltimore, on ...

George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before he...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 116 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo,— "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before he...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 128 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before...
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A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the ...

Theodore Parker - 1853 - 124 pages
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — '"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such beautiful forms, — looked them in his face before...
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