 SHAKESPEARE 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...  The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 143von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 290 Seiten
...dull, nor passion wild ; Shakspeare. /^\THERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For...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 cloudy... | |
 | 1877 - 750 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 418 Seiten
...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...heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the border, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, whose head did stars and... | |
 | Thomas Sinclair - 1878 - 334 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 Seiten
...Colonus, and its child. Shakspeare. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For...loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 Seiten
...it whole; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. Shdkspeare. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...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 cloudy... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1880 - 392 Seiten
...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...dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foiled searching of mortality. And thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned,... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 Seiten
...its high theme.' — Henry Seed. Compare Mr. Arnold's treatment (Poems, ed. 1877, i, 5) : SHAKSPEARE. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...loftiest hill Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, CoUrt&ge. Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place,... | |
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