These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Poems and Essays - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 lehteFull view - About this book
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 lehte
...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... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 lehte
...And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass, 4S Art might obey but not surpass. The passive Master...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. 50 Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with one flame the countless host, Trances the heart through chanting... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1880 - 182 lehte
...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. . . . These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time, and were it needful, I could trace for you the natural growth of all the great religions.... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 536 lehte
...thought's interior sphere, just as the pine tree adds a myriad of new leaves to its old arms every year. " The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." § 5. Christian or Supernatural Inspiration. — Having thus spoken of inspiration in general, we proceed... | |
| Harry Quilter - 1880 - 202 lehte
...to follow Giotto's method. CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might obey, but not surpass ; The passive master...soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that built the shrine O'er the tribes that knelt therein." — Emerson. FANCY a wet, cloudy, spring day... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 lehte
...And granted them an equal dato With Andes and with Ararat. These temples grew as grows the grass ; Ar tluit reared the shrine liestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the fiery Pentecost Girds with... | |
| Harry Quilter - 1880 - 220 lehte
...to follow Giotto's method. CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA. " These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might obey, but not surpass ; The passive 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.... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 176 lehte
...burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe. . . . These temples grew as grows the grass ; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master...the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within." Were there time, and were it needful, I could trace for you the natural growth of all the great religions.... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 lehte
...place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat. r«t! plann'd, And the same power that rear'd the shrine, Bestrode the tribes that knelt within. Ever the... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 lehte
...God he could not free ; He builded better than he knew ; — The conscious stone to beauty grew. " The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul...choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires." Poems, pp. 17 — 18, 19. If we put Emerson's conclusions into five great classes \\ representing respectively... | |
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