 These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 2281849Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 740 pages
...lines develop* our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grasi Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere. These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place.... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pages
...lines derelope our meaning: " These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, bat not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And out of thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1841 - 564 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken, Was writ on tables... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 pages
...To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." The poem " The Sphinx," too, for original statement of a hackneyed theme, and for the subtile art of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew aa grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...Temples grew as grams the gran. Art might obey, but not surpass. The pastille Master lent hit hand To tie vast Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires.'' Dial, Vol. 1., No. 1., pp. 122, 123. There is no... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1845 - 584 pages
...grew as grows the grats. Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the voM Soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires." Dial, Vol. 1., No. I., pp. 122, 123. There is no... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul...choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Andes and with Ararat. •v These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul...the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Even the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the Countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
 | 1852 - 572 pages
...Priestley purchase a work of his own and admire it, thinking it was the production of an unknown author ? " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned." The poet who gave us these lines speaks farther on in his poem of a great mind that rolled out wisdom... | |
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