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
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires." Poems, pp. 17 — 18, 19. If we put Emerson's conclusions... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 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,...power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knell within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one (lame the countless host, Trances the heart through... | |
| 1882 - 376 pages
...Spencer, remains in their pages as essentially unanalyzed and unscientific as in Emerson's verses : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." If we must have mysticism, save us from the materialistic sort! Transcendental mysticism has sweetness,... | |
| Joseph Henry Allen - 1882 - 240 pages
...be intellectually passive and active at the same time, except occasionally in the sense in which " The passive 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 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...countless host, ••Trances the heart through chanting choir*, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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,...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 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...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, hut not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, hut % % ! ! " # choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 402 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...Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd ; And the same Power that rear'd the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
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