The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Poems and Essays - Página 71por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1863 - 774 páginas
...right. This faculty is indeed something that looks as if its possessor were made in the Divine image ! ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God be could not free ; He builded better than he knew ;... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 páginas
...fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Roue, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
| Charles Kent - 1864 - 492 páginas
...The thrilling Delphic oiaulc ; Out from the heart of Nature rolled, The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...burning core below, The canticles of love and woe." Of the capacity of Keats for appreciating the ludicrous, the letters edited by Lord Houghton afford... | |
| William Swinton - 1864 - 312 páginas
...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 aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The... | |
| 1901 - 834 páginas
...that preaching was to present a theme in logical order and rhetorical dress. The sermon did not come, 'like the volcano's tongue of flame, up from the burning core below,' but it came from the text-book of theology and the treatise on sacred oratory. It had more of Demosthenes... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ;... | |
| Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 540 páginas
...! 636. THE EVERLASTING WORD. LM OUT from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came Like the volcano's tongue...burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; Still floats upon the morning wind,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 446 páginas
...awful Jove young Phidias brought; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe." This is the way in which inspiration comes. THE TRUE IDEA OP INSPIRATION. How can the finite mind communicate... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 372 páginas
...Socrates, there has seldom been a head so massive huge, save the stormy features of Michael Angelo, — " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, .And groined the aisles of Christian Rome ; " he who sculptured Day and Night into such majestic forms, — looked them in his face before he... | |
| 1865 - 594 páginas
...simple lines (p. 18) : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He huilded hetter than he knew — v _Vol. II. ^rSVoV'-f 'sá**B4--'4-- JXJ and Uiomc Education, AXD OFriCLAL... | |
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