| 1849 - 778 páginas
...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,...still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his Majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, 1849.] Making... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 páginas
...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...still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill That to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the Heaven... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 páginas
...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...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 774 páginas
...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 - 810 páginas
...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... | |
| 1875 - 800 páginas
...Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran hill 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 boider, often, of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, whose head did stars and... | |
| 1875 - 804 páginas
...Out-topping knowledge ! So some sovran lull Who to the suns uncrowns his, majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, 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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 páginas
...tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Shakspeare. /^\THERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask...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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 páginas
...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... | |
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