...or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. (1. 1—6) 39 These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. (1. 45—46) 40 I know what say the fathers wise, — The Book itself before me lies, Old Chrysostom,...

...(177) "England's abbeys," he equated architectural art with nature's work of producing lofty mountains: Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. Literature. The importance and consummate artistry involved in another art, the production of literature,...

...ever produced by man, one of the organisms so like those of nature that Emerson might well say that " Nature gladly gave them place. Adopted them into her...granted them an equal date, With Andes and with Ararat, " The analogy is not fantastic. In art as in nature an organism is an assemblage of interdependent...

...strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. . . These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass 11 The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. And the same power that...

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...erected a great boulder of unshaped rose quartz, fixed with a simple plaque that bore the epitaph: This passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned. Shortly after Emerson's death in 1882, James Elliot Cabot wrote in his Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson...