...man's thought, Rarer, intenser, 10 Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer ! Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop ;...we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, 15 Crowded with culture ! All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels ; Clouds overcome it ; No, yonder...

...Where meteors shoot, clouds form, Lightnings are loosened, Stars come and go," and had a right to " sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture." It was the latter passage that occurred to me, in coming down the mountain from Perugia, as unexpectedly...

...dramatised in 'Cleon'.43 When the grammarian's disciples leave the herd on the unlettered plain, they seek 'sepulture /On a tall mountain, citied to the top,/ Crowded with culture!' (lines 14-16). That last is a puzzlingly breezy phrase; moreover, it is not easy to visualise what...

...there, man's thought, Rarer, intenser, Self-gathered for an outhreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer. Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek...soar, but one the rest excels; Clouds overcome it; Not yonder sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit. Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights:...

...five-syllable lines do not (partly because the fivesyllable lines tend to be stuffed with polysyllables). Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek...yonder sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit. Robert Browning, 'A Grammarian's Funeral'. 1855 (K:248) This supports the idea that thoughts about...

...length and the breadth and the height of it are equal, and there shall be no more curse and no more war. All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels, Clouds...sparkle is the citadel's Circling its summit. Thither (the Church's) path lies, Wind we up the height. Stars come and go 1 Let joy break with the storm,...

...man's thought, Rarer, intenser, 10 Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer ! Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop; Seek...we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, 15 Crowded with culture ! All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels; Clouds overcome it; No, yonder...

...be the lot of the great majority. Browning had this in view when he wrote A Grammarian's Funeral — Seek we sepulture On a tall mountain, citied to the top, Crowded with culture. Borne on our shoulders. This is our master, famous, calm and dead, "What's in the scroll," quoth he,...