 Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.  The North American Review - Page 82edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
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...from / The smallness of a gnat to air, and then / Have turned mine eye and wept" (Cymbeline 13.17-22); "Sit down, and let us / Upon that point fix all our eyes, that point there. / Make a dumb silence till you fell a sudden sadness / Give us new souls" (Beaumont and Fletcher, The Maid's... | |
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