| Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - 1847 - 444 σελίδες
...highest moods. Who will doubt the identity of art and nature after the authoritative annunciation : " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem...opes with haste her lids, To gaze upon the Pyramids. These temples grew as grows the grass, Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive master lent his... | |
| 1845 - 564 σελίδες
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the nky, As on its friends, with kindred eye : For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose... | |
| 1848 - 602 σελίδες
...the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze npon the Pyramids ; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For out... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 σελίδες
...the works of God, and to which tltese seem to nod in responsive sympathy. Eor, as the poet says — " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adapted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work... | |
| 1851 - 902 σελίδες
...imitations of nature, but we never can apply to them the beautiful words of the American poet : — ' O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends with kindred eye ; For Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 σελίδες
...the works of God, and to which these seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says— . " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; JOHN MILTON. 1 7 O'er England's abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye; For out of... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 σελίδες
...old leaves new myriads ? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And morning opea with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's Abbeys bonds. the sky As on iU friends... | |
| 164 σελίδες
...old leaves new myriads? Such, and so grew these holy piloe, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...her zone ; And morning opes, with haste, her lids To gnze upon the Pyramids : O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye ;... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1856 - 398 σελίδες
...works of God, and to which tliese seem to nod in responsive sympathy. For, as the poet says — • " Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem...rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adapted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat." Such a work... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 σελίδες
...her old leaves new myriads? Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem...with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior ?;>here, These wonders rose to upper air ; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her... | |
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