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...Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And...granted them an equal date, With Andes and with Ararat." In the enjoyment of works of genius, we have an illustration of the common but true observation, that...

...Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. Surely, many utterances which have been accepted as descriptions ought to be interpreted as aspirations,...

...part it is a law by which the artist is unconsciously controlled, not one he consciously obeys : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Though every note in music has its definite mathematical relation, yet verily it was not by mathematics...

...Angelo could not serve two masters. Popes might employ him, but he could not do the work they liked. ' The passive master lent his hand to the vast soul that o'er him planned.' He could not help it. The lover of beauty could not paint the Day of Wrath without setting above it...

...; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ;...granted them an equal date "With Andes and with Ararat." In this poem we see Emerson's belief that the divine influences neither began with Moses nor ended...

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...we can fancy would be done by one trying to follow Giotto's method. CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might...master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him plauned, And the same power that built the shrine O'er the tribes that knelt therein." — Emerson....

...friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ; Ami sy ? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pi dato With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass....

...! O *er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends, with kindred eye ; For, out of thought's interior sphere, These wonders rose to upper air ;...an equal date, With Andes and with Ararat." These are all the works of man. Man's physical inability is involuntary. He struggles against it. He seeks...