 | James B. Hannay - 1996 - 210 psl.
...Residence from the North-East [face p. I COVE CASTLE The Residence of the Author from the South-West " He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." Emerson. THE ETERNAL UNIVERSE FOREWORD The works of James Ballantyne Hannay supply the much sought... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 225 psl.
...Emerson wrote: (175) The hand mat rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, ... He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. Of architectural masterpieces throughout the world, Emerson declared: (176) Earth proudly wears the... | |
 | Mark Richardson, Carolyn Richardson - 1997 - 272 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. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication... | |
 | Gail Marshall, Gejl Maršal - 1998 - 233 psl.
...House, 1949). Appropriately, the epigraph to Harbron's book is a couplet from Emerson's The Problem': 'He builded better than he knew;- / The conscious stone to beauty grew' (lines 23-4). 33 Mrs Oliphant, Dress (London: Macmillan, 1878), p. 68. 34 St John and Craig refer to... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 562 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 penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who had... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 281 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. Frost's references to this poem are shrewd and consequential. The implication in "The Problem" is that... | |
 | Gordon Hayward - 2001 - 224 psl.
...place during the cold season. BUILDING POOLS AND FOUNTAINS CHAPTER TEN SETTING SCULPTURES AND BENCHES He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) JUST BECAUSE GRANITE STANDING STONES, SCULPTURE, AND benches in your... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2002 - 236 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. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 218 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... | |
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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. 
