 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 - 1851 - 744 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 slaught'rous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 544 pages
...taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cpol'd To hear a night-shriek; and my fellf 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cooled To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell1 of hair Would, at a dismal treatise, rouse, and stir As life were in it : I have supped full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...very 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 of horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 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 Ч : I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - 1854 - 386 pages
...the most awful character divests them of the power of producing effect, and that they — 11 Whose fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't"— acquire sucli a familiarity with direness, that they become not only insensible to the dreadful nature... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...wild beasts or " bandit fierce," or to the unmitigated fury of the elements. The time has been that " our 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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 start... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 440 pages
...taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell1 of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors j Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, Cannot once start... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - 1854 - 826 pages
...of the most awful character divests them of the power of producing effect, and that they — " Whose fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in V — acquire such a familiarity with direness, that they become not only insensible to the dreadful... | |
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