| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1887 - 264 psl.
...of the future overleaped the bounds the Puritan would place. " Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; The conscious stone to beauty grew." Freedom for one became freedom for all. The way to the separation of Church and State was opened in... | |
| Amos Hadley - 1888 - 426 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." The verse of Emerson may help us to describe the character and meaning of Milton's vision, whose words,... | |
| Amory Howe Bradford - 1888 - 288 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." RW EMERSON. " Thou dost ever teach the wise, and freely on them pour The inspiration of Thy gifts,... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 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... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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... | |
| 1889 - 826 psl.
...God; and 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... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 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... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 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." The most noteworthy of Emerson's pupils was Henry David Thoreau, "the poet-naturalist." After his graduation... | |
| Abby Ann Judson - 1891 - 276 psl.
...groined the aisles ot 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 wood-bird's nest Of leaves, and feathers from her breast? Or how the fish... | |
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