 | 1901 - 834 pages
...will find the beautiful. " Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity." And the Jove of Phidias, and Peter's dome, and the groined aisles of Christian Rome, are witnesses... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 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 aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God lie could not free; He builded better tlmn he knew; — The conscious... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 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 aisles of Christian Roue, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 372 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 682 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers. The Batlle-FieU. KALPH WAtDO EMERSON. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. The Problem. He builded better than he knew. ibid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 674 pages
...States and the authors of new creeds seem unconscious of their high destiny. "The hand that raised St. Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." But, among those immortal signers... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 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 Rome, Wrought in a snd sincerity ; 306 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 367 He buildcl bei 'er tlmn he knew; — The conscious »tone... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 560 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Tip from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian I tome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1867 - 540 pages
...canticles of love nnd woe. The hand that rounded Pcter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He bnilded bctter than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a... | |
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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. 
