...master-workman had his day. He developed his primitive forms directly and honestly from practical necessity; " He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew." His successors, unembarrassed by knowledge of other styles, avoided his obvious errors, profited by...

...something higher than human Will. For man cannot free himself from God. The spell of divinity is on him. "The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grow!"23 * * * [193] Profoundly significant, too, is it to muster words with reference to the traces...

...transcendence. It is no accident that Johnson made Emerson's lines the epigraph for his entire series: Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. He continues in the Emersonian current, "The ethics of Confucius and the piety of the Vedas are to...

...Residence from the North-East [face p. I COVE CASTLE The Residence of the Author from the South-West " He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew." — Emerson. THE ETERNAL UNIVERSE FOREWORD The works of James Ballantyne Hannay supply the much sought...

...Text We Read?" 6. Frost echoes the following passage of Emerson's poem, which concerns Michelangelo: The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication...

...at present is that modern Democracy seems to have partly escaped 10 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), The hand that rounded Peter's dome, and groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The Problem', Poems in Complete Works (London, Routledge, 1903). from the main danger that was feared...

...Emerson wrote: (175) The hand mat rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, ... He builded better than he knew; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. Of architectural masterpieces throughout the world, Emerson declared: (176) Earth proudly wears the...

...writing a masterpiece. This is precisely "The Problem," as Emerson presents it in his poem of that name: The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the...sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; . . . (Works, 9:7) 20. Kenneth Burke observed of Whitman, "In his 'oceanic' accumulation of details,...

...House, 1949). Appropriately, the epigraph to Harbron's book is a couplet from Emerson's The Problem': 'He builded better than he knew;- / The conscious stone to beauty grew' (lines 23-4). 33 Mrs Oliphant, Dress (London: Macmillan, 1878), p. 68. 34 St John and Craig refer to...

...Christian churches recall the great seventeenth-century masters Emerson admired: Milton, Jonson, Marvell. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew. The penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who...