 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...litanies of nations 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...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st tliou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...litanies of nations came, Like the voleano's tongue of flame, Up from the bnrning com below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's...than 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...litanies of nations 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...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... | |
 | Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 pages
...Converse with the Eternal ! Let us pause, St. Peter's ! at thy plinth, before the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." [Emer son's " Problem." CANTO II. CANTO n. TO ask why thou wert rear'd — why men have made A God... | |
 | 1887 - 532 pages
...Emerson says in these fine lines of his, which Mr. Quilter quotes in the preface to this volume : — ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from Cod he could not free, He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.' ART. XL—... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 614 pages
...of free government and human rights, ignorant of the beauty of the edifice which he was rearing. He Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The book of Otis was reprinted in England. Lord Mansfield, who had read it, rebuked those who spoke of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...litanies of nations 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 aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | Horatio Stebbins - 1876 - 26 pages
...American Idealist has wove it into verse that shall vibrate on all the chords of time : " He wrought in sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stones to beauty grew." In the hard and thorny husk of a cruel system were hid the seeds of a new life... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...Over-Soul. " Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character." — Heroism. Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. "The Problem," Poems. Page 96, note 2. "In this and the following chapter." Compensation is not so obviously... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 388 pages
...builders were before him. Fig. 27. Standing in the world's great cathedral we have wondered whether. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome," had more cunning than the unconscious builders of the Fig. 27. Platvcrinus Safordi. rocks which it... | |
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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. 
