 | Jeremiah Eames Rankin - 1886 - 54 Seiten
...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." This is the way instinct works. It seems to impart itself to the things done, as though they were given... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 Seiten
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, a> Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 Seiten
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he coulu not free; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." The most noteworthy of Emerson's pupils was Henry David Thoreau, "the poet -naturalist." After his graduation... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1887 - 466 Seiten
...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. Speaking of the situations of the old monasteries, Father Gonzague truly remarks that they all stood... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1887 - 264 Seiten
...of the future overleaped the bounds the Puritan would place. " Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Freedom for one became freedom for all. The way to the separation of Church and State was opened in... | |
 | Amos Hadley - 1888 - 426 Seiten
...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." The verse of Emerson may help us to describe the character and meaning of Milton's vision, whose words,... | |
 | Amory Howe Bradford - 1888 - 288 Seiten
...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." RW EMERSON. " Thou dost ever teach the wise, and freely on them pour The inspiration of Thy gifts,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...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. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 Seiten
...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. Know'st thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
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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. 
