 I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to...  Miscellaneous Prose Works - Page 171by Walter Scott - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 476 pages
...the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night shriek : and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors; Direuess, familiar to my slaught'rons thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...was so fond. B. Macb. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't. Fell of hair. "My hairy part, my capillitium. Fell is skin. JOHN. " Fell of hair." Fell is likewise... | |
 | 1853 - 816 pages
...lines where Macbeth says — " The time has been my senses would have To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in*t." " My senses would have cooled"— that is, my nerves would have thrilled witli an icy shudder. The... | |
 | John Philip Kemble - 1817 - 198 pages
...him, when he owns* — The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in'tf Had the author of the Remarks * Remarks, p. 49. t Macbeth, Act v. Sc. S. quoted the whole speech... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 362 pages
...taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night- shriek ; and my fell 3 of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direncss, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...beasts or " bandit fierce," or to the unmitigated fury of the elements. The time has been that " erar fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in it." But the police spoils all ; and we now hardly so much as dream of a midnight murder. Macbeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a njght-shriek ; and my fell* of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness^ familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pages
...those very hairs, as if they had life, start up, &c. POPE. So, in Macbeth : " The time has been " my fell of hair, " Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir, " As life were in't." MALONE. Not only the hair of animals having neither life nor sensation was called an excrement, but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 560 pages
...those very hairs, as if they had life, start up, &c. POPE. So, in Macbeth : " The time has been • my fell of hair, " Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir, " As life were in'l." MALONE. Not only the hair of animals having neither life nor sensation was called an excrement,... | |
 | 1828 - 604 pages
...the most awful character divests them of the power of producing effect, and that they " Whose fall of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't," acquire such a familiarity with direness, that they become not only insensible to the dreadful nature... | |
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