...reflecting the beginnings of modernism and the growing separation between humankind and nature: ... the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty,...Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares bu: the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality. (11. 3-8) Reading these lines...

...you. He said : unless you become as little childrenyou shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask - Thou sm ilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his...

...1844, in a letter to Jane Arnold: "I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are obscure as life." "Others abide our question. Thou art free. / We ask...footsteps in the sea, / Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling place, / Spares but the cloudy border of his base / To the foiled searching of mortality;...

...screening of Lear quite appropriately The Space of Tragedy (Leningrad: "Iskusstvo," 1973). Shakspeare. Others abide our Question: — Thou art free: —...still, Outtopping Knowledge. For the loftiest Hill That to the Stars — uncrown his Majesty, — Planting his stedfast Footsteps in the Sea, — Making...

...she will go on considering the 35 Indeed, the language of Arnold's sonnet seems to deify Shakespeare: Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling place, etc. other possible explanations. A Philistine reading is one which tries to be "uncircumscribed"37...

...does not. On all these matters he is silent. Doubtless he has his reasons. Others abide our questions. Thou art free. We ask and ask; Thou smilest and art still. Deep is the Tathagata, measureless, unfathomable, like the great ocean. CHAPTER VI THE STORY OF INDIAN...

...celebrates Shakespeare's Olympian if good-hearted elusiveness more tersely, in a sonnet that begins: "Others abide our question; thou art free. / We ask and ask, thou smile'st, and art still." This supreme humanity that manages to elude the rigidity of human definition inspired women in particular...

...horns). 186.15 Others abide our question: opening line of Matthew Arnold's sonnet 'Shakespeare' (1844): 'Others abide our question. Thou art free. | We ask...Thou smilest and art still, | Out-topping knowledge'. 839 1 86.20 Ta an bad. . . Taim imo shagart: Gael1c: Tdan bddaran tir. Tdim 1 mo shagart: 'The boat...

...make such a claim plausible Arnold in effect applies to Shakespeare language the Bible uses for God ("Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling place" [cf. Ps 77:19; Deut 10:14]). "And behold, something greater than Shakespeare is here"...

...inappropriate. Matthew Arnold's description of Shakespeare's special qualities has become proverbial : Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. In our own words, most of us would agree that we cannot nail down his purposes or be sure that we understand....