 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
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...the marvellous has been indeed compared to the habit of drinking ardent liquors. But it unfortunately differs in having its limits: he upon whom one dram...our thoughts, Cannot once start us." [Macbeth, act v, sc. 5.] These appear to us the greatest disadvantages under which any author must at present struggle,... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 616 pages
...the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cooled 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 supped full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts. Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 396 pages
...taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell a 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 slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cooled 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 supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 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 : Bireness , familiar to my slaughterous thoughts , Cannot once... | |
 | Richard Fowler - 1843 - 124 pages
...vibrations of the air. " 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 it." Macbeth. When the sensibility of these nerves is morbidly acute we express it by hair-sore,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cooled 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 supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 406 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 ; Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair2 Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors : Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair2 Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir, As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors : Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
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