...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...

...him allure, Which I could not on me endure i Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell...And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a snd sincerity ; 306 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 367 He buildcl bei 'er tlmn he knew; — The conscious »tone...

...some irrepressible influence acting on the soul from within. The poet before quoted says truly, — " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Tip from the burning cone below, The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome,...

...just as it led to the crusades, to the translation of the Bible, and taught resistance to tyrants. "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity ; Himself from God be could not free f * We understand t Int. the identical pippin is (till shown the credulous yisitor,...

...some irrepressible influence acting on the soul from within. The poet before quoted says truly, — " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. The litanies of nations eame, Like the voleano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cone below, The canticles of love nnd...

...saints, prophets, and bards, who spoke the fiery speech, or sung their sweet and soulinspiring psalm : " Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old." I honor piety among the saints of Greece, clad in the form of philanthropy and art, speaking still...

...him allure, Which I could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell...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...

...countries. \^ The fact is that this work illustrates, as few others do, Emerson's fine lines : Out of the heart of nature rolled ^\ The burdens of the Bible...core below, • The canticles of love and woe. The Bunyan literature now constitutes a library by itself, while every year new editions appear in still...

...pagan people. But Mr. Emerson is true to the old doctrine whkb he chanted years ago in The Dial: " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations cvne Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below — The canticles of love and...

...myself), I will ciose therewith. I mean that beantiful passage in Emerson where he says : — " ' The band that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God ho could not free, He builded better than he knew; The conseious...