"Shakespeare" Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
— Mister Micawber
"Shakespeare" Others abide our question.
Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art 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 of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality: And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art 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 of Heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the fo