...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 The...Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the voleano's tongue of flame, Up from the bnrning com below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand...

...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 conscious...

...transcendence. It is no accident that Johnson made Emerson's lines the epigraph for his entire series: Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. He continues in the Emersonian current, "The ethics of Confucius and the piety of the Vedas are to...

...Calvinism" and his exultant, almost Faustian determination upon "SelfReliance" can find to his chagrin that "Out from the heart of nature rolled / The burdens of the Bible old."16 Yet among many antinomian American writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, even...

...Text We Read?" 6. Frost echoes the following passage of Emerson's poem, which concerns Michelangelo: 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...

...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 aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious...

...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 aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; . . . (Works, 9:7) 20. Kenneth Burke observed...

...Christian churches recall the great seventeenth-century masters Emerson admired: Milton, Jonson, Marvell. 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...

...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 aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious...

...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 aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He btiilded better than he knew; — WORK OF THE...