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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...canticles of love and woe; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could...; — 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 outbuilt... | |
| Manfred - 1876 - 204 pages
...the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." [Emerson's " 1'rollem." CANTO II. TO ask why thou went rear'd — why men have made A God unto themselves,... | |
| Elliott W. Preston - 1876 - 206 pages
...the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...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...He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stoue to beauty grew. Kuow'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, aud feathers from her breast... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 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... | |
| Horatio Stebbins - Fourth of July orations - 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... | |
| 1887 - 532 pages
...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of 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— THE REFORM OF CONVOCATION. 1. Chronicle of Convocation, 1867-1886. 2. Report of a Committee... | |
| 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... | |
| Charles Richard Tuttle - Kansas - 1876 - 752 pages
...from which the state of Kansas should be shaped ; and every man in that multifarious gathering : " Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builclcd better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Five committees, of thirteen members,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sail sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; lie builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone...from her breast ? Or how the fish outbuilt her shell, Planting witli morn each annual cell ? Or how the sacred pine-tree adds To her old leaves new myriads... | |
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