| 1884 - 622 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
| Jeremiah Eames Rankin - 1886 - 54 psl.
...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." This is the way instinct works. It seems to impart itself to the things done, as though they were given... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 690 psl.
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, a> 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 wood-bird's nest 25 Of leaves and feathers from her breast ; Or how the... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 psl.
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he coulu not free; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." The most noteworthy of Emerson's pupils was Henry David Thoreau, "the poet -naturalist." After his graduation... | |
| James John Hissey - 1887 - 466 psl.
...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. Speaking of the situations of the old monasteries, Father Gonzague truly remarks that they all stood... | |
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