These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Poems and Essays - Página 72por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 740 páginas
...aptly would Emerson's exquisite lines develop* our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grasi Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master...his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere. These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place.... | |
| 1868 - 738 páginas
...exquisite lines derelope our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, bat not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place,... | |
| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 páginas
...race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken, Was writ on tables... | |
| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 páginas
...morning opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master...his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." The poem " The Sphinx," too, for original statement of a hackneyed theme, and for the subtile art of... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 páginas
...race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew aa grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
| 1845 - 564 páginas
...Temples grew as grams the gran. Art might obey, but not surpass. The pastille Master lent hit hand To tie vast Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires.'' Dial, Vol. 1., No. 1., pp. 122, 123. There is no... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 páginas
...And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. " These Temples grew as grows the grats. Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the voM Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 páginas
...And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master...the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak; or fanes of gold,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 páginas
...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. •v These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master...the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Even the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the Countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 páginas
...equally "holy piles"--all the work of the power above us. "These temples grew as grows the grass j Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand, To the vast soul thai o'er him planned \ And the same power that reared thestirine, Bestrode the tnbes that knelt within."... | |
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