 | Theodore Parker - 1855 - 646 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 majestic forms, — looked them in his face before he... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...burning core below, — The canticles of love and wo. The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from Go«! he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'stthou... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...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 ; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...hers ; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. The Problem. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. He builded better than he knew. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hymn.... | |
 | 1858 - 734 pages
...receiving. So shall our life-work be, to our possible degree, like that of Michael Angelo. " The hands that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stones to beauty grew." May these creations reveal... | |
 | William Swinton - 1859 - 326 pages
...divinity is on him. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And grojned the aisles of Christian Eome, Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow !" And so, through these Symbols... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 788 pages
...her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. The hand that rounded PBTER'S dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sad sincerity ; Himself from GOD he could not free ; He buil.h <1 better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.' itself to us, not Shakspearc's,... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...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 aisles of Christian Kome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | 1863 - 774 pages
...right. This faculty is indeed something that looks as if its possessor were made in the Divine image ! ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groined the...Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God be could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conicious stone to beauty grew.' EMEHSON.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1864 - 312 pages
...something higher than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. " 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 grow !" And so, through these Symbols... | |
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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. 
