 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.  The Methodist Review - Pàgina 1081903Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 560 pàgines
...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, And groined the aisles of Christian I tome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1867 - 540 pàgines
...canticles of love nnd woe. The hand that rounded Pcter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free; He bnilded bctter than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." There is a truth in this — a profound... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pàgines
...Like 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...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... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 548 pàgines
...— " ' The hand that rounded Peter's domo, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free,...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew."' After this, Mr. Raymond seldom appeared in public. Resisting every allurement again to turn aside from... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 pàgines
...— " ' The hand that rounded Peter's domo, And groined tho aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free, He builded better than he knew; Thu conscious stono to beanty grew.'" After this, Mr. Baymond seldom appeared in public. Resisting... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 pàgines
...in some of the bewildering recent architecture. How rarely can we say of the architect and hii work, He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. The artist and the builder are too seldom one. The poet just quoted, when on a trip to New Hampshire, found... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 558 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Norris C. Hodgdon - 1871 - 444 pàgines
...many times has the hyperbole of the poet had much truth in it where he says of the builder: — " ' He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.' " This was true of the early Christians in reference to their religious faith and efforts. A favorite... | |
 | William Swinton - 1872 - 310 pàgines
...than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. " The Land that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow 1" And so, through these Symbols glimmer hints of deeper meanings — sacred suspicions of divinity... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pàgines
...searching fire will try what we have striven to build. W. Morle.y Pumhon. 293. BUILDING, Instinctive. s from his part. Labor is life ! 'tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever dcspaircth, sf.d sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; Пе builded batter than he knew ; The conscious... | |
| |
