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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. "
Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices ... - Page 350
by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...rolled The burdens of the- Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles...Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, v IVrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; tie builded better than he knew;...
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An Address on Intemperance: Delivered in Walpole, N.H., February 26, 1833

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1833 - 282 pages
...rolled, The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the 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...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 70-71

740 pages
...an eqnal date With Andes and with Ararat, The hand that ronnded Peter's dome, And groined the isles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he conld not free ; He bnilded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." When we speak,...
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The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion, Volume 1

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and wo. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...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 wood-bird's...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

1864 - 752 pages
...rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles...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 ; — The conscious...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 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...sincerity. Himself from God he could not free : He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." The true ontology is expressed in...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 564 pages
...rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles...sincerity. Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew. The conscious stone to beauty grew. " Know'sl thou what wove yon wood-bird's...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles...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 wood-bird's...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

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...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...
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Brownson's Quarterly Review, Volume 3

Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1846 - 560 pages
...The burdens of the Bible old ; And the litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe." It is not necessary to denounce the race for having formed to itself religious institutions, nor even...
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