 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he coulu not free; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." The most noteworthy of Emerson's pupils was Henry David Thoreau, "the poet -naturalist." After his... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1887 - 264 pages
...of the future overleaped the bounds the Puritan would place. " Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Freedom for one became freedom for all. The way to the separation of Church and State was opened in... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1887 - 466 pages
...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. Speaking of the situations of the old monasteries, Father Gonzague truly remarks that they all stood... | |
 | Amory Howe Bradford - 1888 - 288 pages
...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." RW EMERSON. " Thou dost ever teach the wise, and freely on them pour The inspiration of Thy gifts,... | |
 | Amos Hadley - 1888 - 426 pages
...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." The verse of Emerson may help us to describe the character and meaning of Milton's vision, whose words,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...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. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | 1889 - 828 pages
...God; and many times has the hyperbole of the poet had much truth in it where he says of the builder: "He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." This was true of the Early Christians, in reference to their religious faith and efforts. A favorite... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...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. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest, Of leaves, and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish... | |
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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. 
