...Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on it< 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. " Tluiae Tempki grew at prows the great, Art night obey, but not surpass. 'I'll- pcasive Matter lent...

...with her creations. Thus the poet can write of the temples that the imagination has reared : — " And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." | We may here distinguish between the imagination and the fancyV The imagination follows the lines...

...birth. Of these the poet could say (what may not be said of the railway or the telegraph) that — " Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." And even those discoveries and inventions of which Science claims the credit could never have been...

...he might have added the bridge, and declared that when its rugged pillars rose out of the tides, " Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." JOHN RANDOLPH. A kinswoman of John Randolph of Roanoke recites in a recent number of the Current a...

...by an intellectual necessity. The brain worked, the pen moved, in obedience to the presiding genius. The passive master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o'er him planned. Hence, in studying the work of a great master, our task is not so much to criticise as to observe,...

...expression of the universal joy of men in the great fact of birth. The man was overmastered by humanity. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." What a man's birthday is to him from year to year, if he has any sensibility or imagination, is a capital...

...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...These temples grew as grows the grass — Art might olicy, but not surpass. The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned: And...

...Emerson's grave is a great boulder of pink quartz inscribed with these two lines from his poem The Problem: "The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." Near is the grave, simply marked, of Miss Alcott. Near also, just below the Hawthorne lot, is Thoreau's...

...recorded his name, place and time of birth and death, and these lines, from his poem "The Problem" : The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned." 991 — Hawthorne's grave, in Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Concord, Mass., is marked by a simple headstone,...

...determine its new form through him. It is not for him to impose ; it is for him to be imposed upon. "The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned" says Emerson in "The Problem," a poem which seems particularly addressed to architects, and which every...