 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...Like 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 aisles of Christian Rome, a> Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1886 - 204 pages
...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 aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ;... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1887 - 300 pages
...low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines 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 coulu not free; He builded better than he knew ; The... | |
 | James John Hissey - Great Britain - 1887 - 466 pages
...mediaeval craftsman did his very best ; he put his whole soul into his work. As Emerson finely says : 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... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - Highway law - 1887 - 180 pages
...doing faithfully and well the nearest duty, perform work which turns out better than they expect. " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Borne, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; He builded better than he knew." The originators of many great... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...Like 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 aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;—... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...Like 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 aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; —... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - English literature - 1888 - 312 pages
...noble and memorable lines : — " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Eome, Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew,... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 318 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
