...seem a poet, for his verse is often homely and rough. It has lines and stanzas of noble music, — " Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old." " Still on the seeds of all he made The rose of beauty bums. Through times that wear and forms that...

...e last two lines are often quoted, •son seems to have "builded better he knew " in writing them. Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old," limself from God he could not free." these lines Emerson uses nature and as synonymous terms. The arguf...

...from vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought ; Never from lips of cunning fell 5 The thrilling Delphic oracle ; Out from the heart...nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, 10 Up from the burning core below, — • The canticles of love and woe : The hand that rounded Peter's...

...sleep, With the dirge, and the sounds of lamenting, and voices of women who weep ? AC LYALL. RESPONSES NEVER from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic...of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity...

...inventor of court spectacles. Mediaeval Christianity strengthened their inspiration. As Emerson has it: The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning cave below — The canticles of love and woe ; The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the...

...aspirations, the autobiography of human nature on its religious side, from its infancy to its perfection. Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The word unto the prophets spoken, Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; Still floats upon the morning wind,...

...first place, he taught that religion is absolutely natural, — not supernatural, but natural : — " Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old." 8 He believed that revelation is natural and continuous, and that in all ages prophets are born. Those...

...of life; as pious men awakened by concern for the public virtue, and nobler men never spoke speech. Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.* Little needs now be said of the New Testament, of the simple truth that rustles in its leaves, its...

...thought, where he taught that religion was not supernatural, but natural, or, as his own verse has it, Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old, He held that revelation was natural and continuous, and religious truth an unrolling picture, not a...

...thought, where he taught that religion was not supernatural, but natural, or, as his own verse has it, Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. He held that revelation was natural and continuous, and religious truth an unrolling picture, not a...