 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 Altruistic Review - Seite 2581894Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1876 - 752 Seiten
...from which the state of Kansas should be shaped ; and every man in that multifarious gathering : " Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builclcd better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Five committees, of thirteen members,... | |
 | William Dickey Gunning - 1876 - 388 Seiten
...builders were before him. Fig. 27. Standing in the world's great cathedral we have wondered whether. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome," had more cunning than the unconscious builders of the Fig. 27. Platvcrinus Safordi. rocks which it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 Seiten
...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 aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | Manfred - 1876 - 204 Seiten
...Converse with the Eternal ! Let us pause, St. Peter's ! at thy plinth, before the mystic Cause, (') " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Home, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...sixpence all too dear, With that he called the tailor lovvn. SHAKESPERE, Othello, act ii. sc. 3. Stone — The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The couscious STONE to beauty grew. EMERSON, The Problem. — The STONE that is rolling can gather no moss.... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 Seiten
...build— W. Morlty Pumhon. 372. BUILDING. Instinctive THE hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groin'd 0 0 Know'st thou what wove yon wooclbird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the fish... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 Seiten
...the noble superstructure. "Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity! " If these things help to turn the hearts of the people of this new West toward the soul of beauty... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 Seiten
...I.iko 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 Home, Wrought in a sail sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; lie builded better than he... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 Seiten
...the volcano's tongue of flame, 3. 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. 4. Know'st thou what wove yon wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast ? Or how the... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - 1878 - 300 Seiten
...faith dwelt within them. May they dwell in us also. 'The ham! that rounded Peter's dome, 'And grmed the aisles of Christian Rome. 'Wrought in a sad sincerity;...than he knew. 'The conscious stone to beauty grew.'' IDIETTIEIR, 2C2CI2C. STRASBOURG AND MUNICH. STRASBOURG, January 14. — There are two ways of spelling... | |
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