 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 páginas
...hand that rounded Peter's dome 34 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, — The conscious stone to beauty grew. A sense of dignity and reverent beauty transfuses his artistic expression, and is never absent from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 328 páginas
...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. Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Problem,— Poems, p. 14). CHAPTER VII. GENERATIONS. What Two Different Views... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could riot free ; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. ikid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hid. Good by, proud world !... | |
 | Lucy Yeend Culler - 1883 - 250 páginas
...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." Beneath the dome rises the grand bronze canopy borne by four spiral columns, magnificently gilded.... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 páginas
...groin'd 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... | |
 | 1884 - 618 páginas
...own language, describing one who "Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." (£.) Will his system stand ? • This question was well answered by the traveler on a Mississippi... | |
 | American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers - 1884 - 240 páginas
...cathedral builders in those old times. You remember the words: " Himself from God he could not free. He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." aud, as our chairman has so admirably said, has grown into the white glory of Milan or the stately... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 542 páginas
...of all Time." RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 páginas
...stretched forefinger of all Time." Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew." " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1886 - 204 páginas
...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. 
