 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...whose gaze would else have been indefinitely averted, wrote the following lines in a poem called " The Problem" : The hand that rounded Peter's dome,...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. THE reader who has grown out... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...superiority to himself is knowledge.' Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, Boston, 1865, p. 18) : ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He buildtd bttter than kt knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PACE earlier on nearly... | |
 | 1880 - 672 pages
...so often read that they seem to have always existed. We must quote a few, no matter how familiar : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the..."Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Earth proudly... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning cove below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, x, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. -E But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by mouths of rain ; And fas Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, TCoslon, 1865, p. 18) : • The hand thnt rounded Peters dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; fft builded better than he knew : The conSCious stone to beauty grew. PAGE earlier on nearly the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 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 a sad sincerity ; CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. He builded better than he knew ;— The conscious stone to beauty... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groin'd W ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — Tlie 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... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 616 pages
...had noble cathedrals, every stone of which wag carved with reverence, and laid with religious awe. ' 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." So that we repeat to-day, in... | |
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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. 
