 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.  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 2301850Full view - About this book
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Temperance - 1833 - 282 pages
...and punished according to the "natural laws." They see no longer the hand of God, but great Nature. " Out from the heart of nature rolled, The burdens of...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe." But I need hardly say to you that this whole tendency is anti-religious, and productive, in every heart... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1841 - 564 pages
...His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...burning core below, — The canticles of love and wo. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad... | |
 | Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...His awful Jove3'oung Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God ha could not free ; He buildi'd better than he knew... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart of nature roll'd The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations...the burning core below,— The canticles of love and wo. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Himself from God he could not tree;... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1855 - 568 pages
...always, perhaps seldom, able to explain itself. There is a truth in these lines of Emerson : — " 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,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 584 pages
...awful Jove voting Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic Oracle : Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...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.... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - American essays - 1845 - 564 pages
...His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic Oracle : Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of...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.... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 452 pages
...that might be found; but they are the only ones we have at hand. The first is from " The Problem." " 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,... | |
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