 | American fiction - 1921 - 558 pages
...now see, unwittingly found greatness there. What Emerson said of Michael Angelo and St. Peter's— " He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew", — is true, mutatis mutandis, of /Eschylus, and Sophocles, and Euripides: and it is true also of the... | |
 | James B. Hannay - Philosophy - 1996 - 232 pages
...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... | |
 | David Boucher - History - 1997 - 364 pages
...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. The Problem', Poems in Complete Works (London, Routledge, 1903). from the main danger that was feared by... | |
 | William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | Mark Richardson - Individualism in literature - 1997 - 296 pages
...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. (Oxford Authors edition 496) Frost's allusion to the poem is shrewd and consequential. The implication... | |
 | Gail Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...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. The penultimate poem in the 1 846 volume was "Threnody," Emerson's elegy for his first-born son, who had... | |
 | Robert Faggen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 308 pages
...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. Frost's references to this poem are shrewd and consequential. The implication in "The Problem" is that... | |
 | Gordon Hayward - Gardening - 2001 - 238 pages
...place during the cold season. BUILDING POOLS AND FOUNTAINS CHAPTER TEN SETTING SCULPTURES AND BENCHES He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) JUST BECAUSE GRANITE STANDING STONES, SCULPTURE, AND benches in your... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Nature - 2002 - 280 pages
...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. 136.27-28 / pearls before swine: "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before... | |
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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. 
