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 Swinton - 1886 - 690 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...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. 5a Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...to-day his word runneth very quickly ; for it is not his word, but the word to which he has listened. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; For out of thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air." Let me try to describe the mental... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 608 pages
...prows the great, Art night obey, but not surpass. 'I'll- pcasive Matter lent his luind To the txut Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that...quires, And through the priest the mind inspires." Dial, Vol. I., pp. 128, 123. There is no mistaking the doctrine here set forth.- It is the identity... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 610 pages
...Art iniijlii obey, but not surpass. Tlte passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er Mm planned, And the same power that reared the shrine...quires, And through the priest the mind inspires." Dial, Vol. L, pp. 122, 123. There is no mistaking the doctrine here set forth. It is the identity of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 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...but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand I To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; ' And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...gave 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,...hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned; And the sume power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds... | |
| 1918 - 602 pages
...determine its new form through him. It is not for him to impose ; it is for him to be imposed upon. "The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned" says Emerson in "The Problem," a poem which seems particularly addressed to architects, and which every... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. (1. 1—6) 39 These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. (1. 45—46) 40 I know what say the fathers wise, — The Book itself before me lies, Old Chrysostom,... | |
| Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 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,...the same power that reared the shrine, Bestrode the stibes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost 73 Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances... | |
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