 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 - Sivu 220tekijä(t) Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 248 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1849 - 778 sivua
...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,...That to the stars uncrowns his Majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, 1849.] Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 sivua
...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...That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 sivua
...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...That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 774 sivua
...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 - 804 sivua
...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 stedfast...heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the bo1der, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And i li.ni, whose head did stars... | |
 | 1875 - 804 sivua
...and ;>->k — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran lull Who to the suns uncrowns his, majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps...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... | |
 | 1875 - 810 sivua
...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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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