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. A Short History of American Literature - Page 111by Henry Augustin Beers - 1906 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1878 - 300 pages
...botch-work. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of ancient Rome Wrought with a sad sincerity — Himself from God he could not...than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." If Michael Angelo thus built for immortality, how earnestly should every believer rear up what is to... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 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 Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1848 - 44 pages
...had noble Cathedrals, every stone of which was carved with reverence, and laid with religious awe. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of those Mediaeval Christians ; and until... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1848 - 580 pages
...stone of which was carved with reverence, and laid with religious awe. ' The hand that rounded Peter'a dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew.' So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of those Mediaeval Christians ; and until... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1848 - 580 pages
...with religious awe. ' The hnnd that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.' So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of those Mediaeval Christians; and until... | |
| 1887 - 698 pages
...Turn not aside, but make the greater haste To join and straighten them. CE ardour needs. One certainty Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than be knew; The conscious stone to beaut; grew. А нон. HECOED9 OP CELTIC OCCUPATION IN LOCAL NAMES.... | |
| 1849 - 448 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...knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared... | |
| 1852 - 572 pages
...Priestley purchase a work of his own and admire it, thinking it was the production of an unknown author ? " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned." The poet who gave us these lines... | |
| David Thomas - 448 pages
...came 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." (4.) Forms of society, embodying the grand principles of godliness, and of its cognate humanity. Secondly... | |
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