Ralph Waldo Emerson: Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

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