 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 548 psl.
...— " ' The hand that rounded Peter's domo, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free,...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew."' After this, Mr. Raymond seldom appeared in public. Resisting every allurement again to turn aside from... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 psl.
...— " ' The hand that rounded Peter's domo, And groined tho aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not free, He builded better than he knew; Thu conscious stono to beanty grew.'" After this, Mr. Baymond seldom appeared in public. Resisting... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 558 psl.
...myself), I will ciose therewith. I mean that beantiful passage in Emerson where he says : — " ' The band that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought with a sad sincerity. Himself from God ho could not free, He builded better than he knew; The conseious... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 psl.
...in some of the bewildering recent architecture. How rarely can we say of the architect and hii work, He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. The artist and the builder are too seldom one. The poet just quoted, when on a trip to New Hampshire,... | |
 | Norris C. Hodgdon - 1871 - 444 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1872 - 310 psl.
...than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. " The Land that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow 1" And so, through these Symbols glimmer hints of deeper meanings — sacred suspicions of divinity... | |
 | 1872 - 710 psl.
...searching fire will try what we have striven to build. W. Morle.y Pumhon. 293. BUILDING, Instinctive. s from his part. Labor is life ! 'tis the still water faileth ; Idleness ever dcspaircth, sf.d sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; Пе builded batter than he knew ; The conscious... | |
 | Anna Harriette Leonowens - 1873 - 360 psl.
...not exaggerate in calling them sublime; they prove unmistakably that the architect, whoever he was, ""Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he...than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." This impression was deepened every time I visited them, and, though I knew every inch of the temples... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 psl.
...the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 psl.
...Phidias brought. The Problem. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. ibid. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ibid. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. ibid. Good-bye, proud world... | |
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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. 
