 | 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... | |
 | 1877 - 750 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sinclair - 1878 - 334 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 462 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Winter - 1880 - 220 páginas
...his genius, he baffles all scrutiny, and stands forever alone. " Others abide our question ; thou are free : We ask, and ask ; thou smilest and art still — Out-topping knowledge." It is impossible to convey in words even an adequate suggestion of the prodigious and overwhehr1T ing... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1881 - 242 páginas
...life and youth, Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell ? CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. 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 stedfast footsteps in the sea,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1884 - 396 páginas
...it whole; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. Shakspeare. OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and...art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hfll, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea, Making the... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1885 - 128 páginas
...course, my first witness. There is surely significance in this. " Others abide our question," begins Arnold's fine sonnet on Shakespeare—" others abide our question ; thou art free." The little we know about our greatest poet has become a commonplace. It is a striking tribute to the... | |
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask : thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. 
