 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...  The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life-story - Sida 3efter Frank Harris - 1909 - 422 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,...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his Majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the... | |
 | 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...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 sidor
...whole: The mellow glory of the Attic stage ; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. II. SHAKSPBABE. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 sidor
...glory of the Attic stage ; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. SONNETS. II. SHAKSPEAKE. OTHEHS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill v Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast 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,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 sidor
...beside the stream, Sweet memories would slide into his dream. EDWARD DOWDEN. CL1I. SHAKSPEARE. THERS abide our question— Thou art free ! We ask and 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... | |
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