 These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.  An Emerson Calendar - Page 114by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one name the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These tem pies grew as grows the grass ; Art might olx\v, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand...knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one Hame the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting And through the priest the mind inspires.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Muster lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the same power that reared the shrine... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 330 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The talk of subduing nature is foolish. Equally so is the talk of improving nature. The only duty to be... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1876 - 342 pages
...intellectually passive and active at the same time, except occasionally in the sense in which "The pnssive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Occasionally. Here, I come to speak of a master-trait of our friend, a ground-principle in his mental... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes anil with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. 0 T 0 plann'd. KW Emersm. 373. BUILDING. Neglect of WHATE'ER thou purposest to do, With an unwearied zeal... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. 6. These temples grew as grows the grass — Art might...the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. 7. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass — Art might...o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrim Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one Hamo the countless... | |
 | 1879 - 644 pages
...volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. . . . These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might...And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode th; tribes that knelt within." Were there time, and were it needful, I could trace for you the natural... | |
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