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. Poets of America - Stran 162avtor: Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 516 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1857 - 448 strani
...leaves new myriads ? Such, and so grew these holy piloe, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Kurili proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her...opes, with haste, her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids : O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of thought's... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 482 strani
...government and human rights; ignorant of the beauty of the edifice which he was rearing. He wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew. The book of Otis was reprinted in England. Lord Mansfield, who had read it, rebuked those who spoke of... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1857 - 408 strani
...works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — • " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; Arid morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the... | |
| 1858 - 734 strani
...of Michael Angelo. " The hands that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could...He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stones to beauty grew." May these creations reveal to us anew the Infinite Wisdom, and may the thought... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 strani
...art, in those lines that sing themselves now through the whole cultivated mind of our country : — Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends a kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior... | |
| William Swinton - 1859 - 326 strani
...divinity is on him. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And grojned the aisles of Christian Eome, Wrought in a sad sincerity : Himself from God he could...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow !" And so, through these Symbols glimmer hints of deeper meanings — sacred suspicions of divinity... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 446 strani
...lines that sing themselves now through the whole cultivated mind of our country : — Earth prondly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone;...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends a kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior... | |
| Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 strani
...lines that sing themselves now through the whole cultivated mind of our country : — ]•:•)) ih proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone; And Morning opes with haste her lids, To gnze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends a kindred eye; For out... | |
| William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 strani
...canticles of love and woe. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Kome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could...than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Those temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass ; The passive master lent his... | |
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