 | David Boucher - 1997 - 364 pagina’s
...at present is that modern Democracy seems to have partly escaped 10 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), The hand that rounded Peter's dome, and groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The Problem', Poems in Complete Works (London, Routledge, 1903). from the main danger that was feared... | |
 | Lee Oser - 1998 - 204 pagina’s
...writing a masterpiece. This is precisely "The Problem," as Emerson presents it in his poem of that name: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; . . . (Works, 9:7) 20. Kenneth Burke observed of Whitman, "In his 'oceanic' accumulation of details,... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pagina’s
...Christian churches recall the great seventeenth-century masters Emerson admired: Milton, Jonson, Marvell. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pagina’s
...Problem," which concerns Michelangelo, and which marks a variation on the theme introduced in "Memory": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Frost's references to this poem are shrewd and consequential. The implication in "The Problem" is that... | |
 | 1905 - 986 pagina’s
...years. All of which is respectfully submitted, (Mrs. Charles H. Terry) FRANCES AM TERRY, Secretary. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He btiilded better than he knew; — WORK OF THE CHAPTERS Oakland Chapter (Oakland, California) held a... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 280 pagina’s
...2). 130.24-27 / "Wrought . . . grew.": Thoreau adapts the second stanza of Emerson's "The Problem": The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 240 pagina’s
...of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, —...breast? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with morn each annual cell? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads? Such and... | |
 | Michael Pupin - 2005 - 309 pagina’s
...tribute to Michelangelo: "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" applies equally well to Newton. Study the lives of the men who contributed their share to the foundation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 329 pagina’s
...of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rime, 20 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could...beauty grew, Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's neat Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Painting with mom... | |
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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... 
