 OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his...  Poems - Sida 173efter Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 336 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1849 - 778 sidor
...Tennyson. There is a sonnet to Shakspeare, among others, well worth giving as an extract (p. 50) : — Others abide our question. Thou art free, We ask,...Majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, 1849.] Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 sidor
...whole : The mellow glory of the Attic stage ; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. II. SHAKSPEARE. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 774 sidor
...sonnets 1 If so, the gods themselves took care that the veil should not be rent. The secret remains. 4 Others abide our question. Thou art free — We ask and ask. Thou standest and art still, . Out-topping knowledge.' A visit to Derbyshire in the autumn of 1889 gave... | |
 | 1875 - 810 sidor
...has made doe amends to the greatest intellect the world has seen, in the following noble sonnet : — Others abide our question — Thou art free ! We ask...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the... | |
 | 1875 - 800 sidor
...Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the boider, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, whose head did stars and... | |
 | 1875 - 804 sidor
...Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran lull Who to the suns uncrowns his, majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place. Spares hut the boider, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, whose head did... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 sidor
...tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Shakspeare. /^\THERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask...still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 sidor
...whole; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. Shakspeare. /^\THERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask...still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill v Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea> Making the heaven... | |
 | 1877 - 750 sidor
...a tribute to the memory of Shakspeare, and a sturdy appreciation of his universal influence : — " Others abide our question : Thou art free ! We ask...Thou smilest and art still. Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the... | |
 | Thomas Sinclair - 1878 - 334 sidor
...unwritten, would have it that, because they could not do it themselves, it should be impossible. ' Others abide our question — Thou art free ! We ask...Thou smilest and art still ! Out-topping knowledge.' So true it is that the very skilful ones can rarely enter into the workshops of the divinely gifted,... | |
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