 | 1887 - 532 pages
...Emerson says in these fine lines of his, which Mr. Quilter quotes in the preface to this volume : — ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from Cod he could not free, He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.' ART. XL—... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 384 pages
...builders were before him. Tig. 27. Standing in the world's great cathedral we have wondered whether. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome," had more cunning than the unconscious builders of the Fig. 27. Platvcrinus Safordi. OUR PLANET: pig.... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 388 pages
...builders were before him. Fig. 27. Standing in the world's great cathedral we have wondered whether. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome," had more cunning than the unconscious builders of the Fig. 27. Platvcrinus Safordi. rocks which it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 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 Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | Manfred - 1876 - 204 pages
...Converse with the Eternal ! Let us pause, St. Peter's ! at thy plinth, before the mystic Cause, (') " The hand 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 pages
...of free government and human rights, ignorant of the beauty of the edifice which he was rearing. He Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The book of Otis was reprinted in England. Lord Mansfield, who had... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1876 - 752 pages
...from which the state of Kansas should be shaped ; and every man in that multifarious gathering : " Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builclcd better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Five committees, of thirteen... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...sixpence all too dear, With that he called the tailor lovvn. SHAKESPERE, Othello, act ii. sc. 3. Stone — 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 couscious STONE to beauty grew. EMERSON, The Problem. —... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...the noble superstructure. "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! " If these things help to turn the hearts of the people of this new West toward the soul of beauty... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...build— W. Morlty Pumhon. 372. BUILDING. Instinctive THE hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groin'd 0 0 ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wooclbird'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. 
