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
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1879 - 512 pages
...Angelo could not serve two masters. Popes might employ him, but he could not do the work they liked. ' The passive master lent his hand to the vast soul that o'er him planned.' He could not help it. The lover of beauty could not paint the Day of Wrath without setting above it... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...part it is a law by which the artist is unconsciously controlled, not one he consciously obeys : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Though every note in music has its definite mathematical relation, yet verily it was not by mathematics... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 182 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...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time, and were it needful, I could trace for you the natural growth of all the great religions.... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, 4S Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. 50 Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
| Harry Quilter - 1880 - 202 pages
...we can fancy would bo done by one trying to follow Giotto's method. CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might...soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that built the shrine O'er the tribes that knelt therein." — Emerson. FANCY a wet, cloudy, spring day... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal dato With Andes and with Ararat. car, but, more endeared, tluit reared the shrine liestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 pages
...thought's interior sphere, just as the pine tree adds a myriad of new leaves to its old arms every year. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." § 5. Christian or Supernatural Inspiration. — Having thus spoken of inspiration in general, we proceed... | |
| Harry Quilter - 1880 - 220 pages
...we can fancy would be done by one trying to follow Giotto's method. CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might...master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him plauned, And the same power that built the shrine O'er the tribes that knelt therein." — Emerson.... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 176 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...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time, and were it needful, I could trace for you the natural growth of all the great religions.... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. r«t! plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
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