...him allure, Which I could not on me endure ? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young ; T WISJS roll'd The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame,...

...duties on herself did lay." But to his life's work we can well apply the immortal words of Emerson: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a Bad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone...

...transcendence. It is no accident that Johnson made Emerson's lines the epigraph for his entire series: Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. He continues in the Emersonian current, "The ethics of Confucius and the piety of the Vedas are to...

...Calvinism" and his exultant, almost Faustian determination upon "SelfReliance" can find to his chagrin that "Out from the heart of nature rolled / The burdens of the Bible old."16 Yet among many antinomian American writers of the second half of the nineteenth century, even...

...him alure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The...burdens of the Bible old; the litanies of nations came, 72 Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and...

...stimulate the spiritual activity of the Christian soul. Emerson's poetical tribute to Michelangelo: "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew:...

...these grand lines from the "Problem:" "Out of the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bibles old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's...tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below." I had just withdrawn from the Presbyterian ministry, on account of doubts and a tendency to liberal...