 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pagina’s
...heart of Nature roll'd The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's W 4 4@ 4 groin'd the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pagina’s
...Byron. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisl s of Christian Kome, Wrought in a nad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free : He...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Emerson. A spiritual empire there embodied stood ; The Roman Church there met me face to face ; Ages,... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pagina’s
...Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, TCoslon, 1865, p. 18) : • The hand thnt rounded Peters dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; fft builded better than he knew : The conSCious stone to beauty grew. PAGE earlier on nearly the... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 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 —...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell f Or how the sacred pine-tree... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pagina’s
...litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — Tlie canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1884 - 616 pagina’s
...had noble cathedrals, every stone of which wag carved with reverence, and laid with religious awe. ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." So that we repeat to-day, in these our edifices, the ideas of those Medieval Christians; and until... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pagina’s
...of nature rolled The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, i5 Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning core below, —...Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, *i Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 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, —...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Koine, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could rot free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 2007 - 403 pagina’s
...something higher than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow!"23 * * * [193] Profoundly significant, too, is it to muster words with reference to the traces... | |
 | Mark Richardson - 1997 - 296 pagina’s
...Text We Read?" 6. Frost echoes the following passage of Emerson's poem, which concerns Michelangelo: The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication... | |
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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... 
