 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 páginas
...his superiority to himself is knowledge.' Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, Boston, 1865, p. 18) : ' The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And...sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He buildtd bttter than kt knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PACE earlier on nearly the same... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...would else have been indefinitely averted, wrote the following lines in a poem called " The Problem" : The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. THE reader who has grown out of... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 páginas
...superiority to himself is knowledge.' Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 4Tbe Problem' (Poems, Boston, 1865, p. 18) : 4 The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew.' PAGE earlier on nearly the same... | |
 | 1880 - 672 páginas
...so often read that they seem to have always existed. We must quote a few, no matter how familiar : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the..."Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He builded better than he knew — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Earth proudly... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame. Up from the burning cove below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, x, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. -E But fiercely ran the current, Swollen high by mouths of rain ; And fas Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 páginas
...Cp. Mr. Emerson's poem 'The Problem' (Poems, TCoslon, 1865, p. 18) : • The hand thnt rounded Peters dome. And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought...sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; fft builded better than he knew : The conSCious stone to beauty grew. PAGE earlier on nearly the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groin'd W builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 páginas
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below,—- The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. He builded better than he knew ;— The conscious stone to beauty... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1920 - 284 páginas
...circumstances, and it recalls to my mind the lines of Emerson : "The hand that rounded Peter's tomb, And groined aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; The conscious stone to beauty grew — He builded better than he knew." ( Applause.}When we determine... | |
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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. 
