 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...  Shakespeare's England - Side 161av William Winter - 1886 - 270 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1849 - 778 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...has made due 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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 416 sider
...rest beside the- stream, Sweet memories would slide into his dream. EDWARD DOWDEN. SHAKSPEARE. THERS abide our question — Thou art free ! We ask and...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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