 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1878 - 304 pagina’s
...they dwell in us also. 'The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 'And grmed the aisles of Christian Home. 'Wrought in a sad sincerity; 'Himself from God he...than he knew. 'The conscious stone to beauty grew." 2C2CIXI. STRASBOURG AND MUNICH. STBASBOUBG, January 14. — There are two ways of spelling this city's... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pagina’s
...write in obedience to another power. 40. In playful travesty of Emerson's line in The Problem: — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God u-: could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.'' Much... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pagina’s
...canticles of love and woe. -E The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, lood was flowing, And he was sore in pain, And heavy...did swimmer, In such an evil case, Struggle through with moni each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads ? Such... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pagina’s
...superiority to himself is knowledge.' Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 4Tbe Problem' (Poems, Boston, 1865, p. 18) : 4 The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PAGE earlier on nearly the same spot of ground, "What ! you are stepping westward?" This earlier poem,... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pagina’s
...would else have been indefinitely averted, wrote the following lines in a poem called " The Problem" : The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. THE reader who has grown out of a motherless boy in spite of the adverse surroundings of childhood... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pagina’s
...superiority to himself is knowledge.' Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, Boston, 1865, p. 18) : ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He buildtd bttter than kt knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PACE earlier on nearly the same... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 pagina’s
...canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound truth. The Bible is not an exceptional book in this, that it... | |
 | 1880 - 672 pagina’s
...so often read that they seem to have always existed. We must quote a few, no matter how familiar : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the..."Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Earth proudly... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pagina’s
...old ; The litanies of nations came, 15 Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning cove below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand...Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, x, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pagina’s
...heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below,—-...aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. He builded better than he knew ;— The conscious stone to beauty... | |
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Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The 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... 
