 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.  The Ladies' Repository - Page 3321852Full view - About this book
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 his hand To... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 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...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Phidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. Jbid. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. fb:d. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. ft:.!. Good-bye, proud world... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1875 - 538 pages
...flame, Up from the burning: cone below, Thu canticles of love and woe. The band that rounded I'etcr's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome* Wrought...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound truth. The Bible is not an exceptional book iu this, that it... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 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, VOL. XIV. 6 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than... | |
 | Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - 1875 - 622 pages
...master-workman had his day. He developed his primitive forms directly and honestly from practical necessity; " He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." His successors, unembarrassed by knowledge of other styles, avoided his obvious errors, profited by... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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...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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