...severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. SHAKSPEARE. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven...

...example of this concentrated power of characterisation is to be found in the sonnet to Shakespeare : Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still. Equally concise is his characterisation of Byron as a poetical force : He taught us little ; but our...

...severance rul'd ; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplurnb'd, salt, estranging sea. SHAKSPF.ARE. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask : Thou smilcst and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his...

...blaming still our vain turmoil, Labourers that shall not fail, when man is gone. III.— SHA KESPEA RE. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...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,...

...working, blaming still our vain turmoil, Labourers that shall not fail, when man is gone. SHAKESPEARE0 OTHERS abide our question. Thou> art free. We ask...loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, 115 Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, 5 Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place,...

...to be able to account fully for Shakspere ? Matthew Arnold, in his sonnet on Shakspere, says : — " Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge." " And Thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure,...

...to think io6 his personal affairs or personal story of the slightest general interest. And so— " Others abide our question, thou art free ; We ask...thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. And thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure,...

...admirable"? This query, and a thousand others, have arisen; for we forget Arnold's lines to the Master: " Others abide our question. Thou art free. " We ask and ask — thou smilest and art still." Man's "moving" is found more "express and ad"mirable" than that of the most perfect machine or adaptation...

...admirable"? This query, and a thousand others, have arisen; for we forget Arnold's lines to the Master : " Others abide our question. Thou art free. " We ask and ask — thou smiles t and art still." Man's "moving" is found more "express and ad"mirable" than that of the most...

...and Lear and the rest as the moods and dreams of some drama the actuality of which we never touch. "Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still ..." Pushkin smiles, but he is never free in the sense that Shakespeare in the end is free, and he...