 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 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 woodbird's... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 558 pages
...myself), I will ciose therewith. I mean that beantiful passage in Emerson where he says : — " ' The band that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God ho could not free, He builded better than he knew; The conseious... | |
 | William Swinton - 1872 - 310 pages
...than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. " The Land that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...sad sincerity: Himself from G-od he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow 1" And so, through these Symbols... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...searching fire will try what we have striven to build. W. Morle.y Pumhon. 293. BUILDING, Instinctive. s from his part. Labor is life ! 'tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever dcspaircth, sf.d sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; Пе builded batter than he knew ; The conscious... | |
 | Anna Harriette Leonowens - 1873 - 360 pages
...not exaggerate in calling them sublime; they prove unmistakably that the architect, whoever he was, ""Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." This impression was deepened... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...Phidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. ibid. 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. Ibid. Earth proudly wears... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 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. Know'st thou what wove yon... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 pages
...and set him over the works of Thy hands." St. Peter's was not the work of quadrumanous activity. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome," is not to be undeified and deprived of its birthright as made " in the image of God. " But this fact... | |
 | 1874 - 712 pages
...canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peler's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded belter than he knew ; The conscious slone to beauty grew. . . . The passive Master lent... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, !Tp from the burning con'. Mow, — 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 woodbird's... | |
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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. 
