| Joel Benton - 1883 - 150 psl.
...hand that rounded Peter's dome 34 Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew. A sense of dignity and reverent beauty transfuses his artistic expression, and is never absent from... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Problem, Poems, p. 14). CHAPTER VII. GENERATIONS. What Two Different Views... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 psl.
...groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could riot free ; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. ikid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. Hid. Good by, proud world !... | |
| Lucy Yeend Culler - 1883 - 250 psl.
...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." Beneath the dome rises the grand bronze canopy borne by four spiral columns, magnificently gilded.... | |
| William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 psl.
...groin'd 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... | |
| 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... | |
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