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" But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres... "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical ... - Page 21
1826
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...night, And, for the day, confined to fast in fire, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.* But that I am forbid To tell...two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful...
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Notes, Critical, Illustrative & Practical on the Book of Job: With ..., Volume 1

Albert Barnes - 1854 - 442 pages
...horrore comae. A similar description of the effect of fear is given in the Ghost's speech to Hamlet : ' But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful...
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The History of Hell

Alice K. Turner - 1993 - 324 pages
...days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 77; V knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon...
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The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - 1996 - 362 pages
...father first speaks to Hamlet: "But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my prison-house, / 1 could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow...particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fearful porpentine [ie, porcupine]" (Hamlet 1.5.13-20). 220 will cause my sun to sit at noon: The sun's...
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The Unmasking of Drama: Contested Representation in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Jonathan Baldo - 1996 - 228 pages
...the ear by suggesting how easy it is for an auditory overload to short-circuit the organ of seeing: "I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would...thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres" (1.5.15-17). His scenario reverses the customary procedure of messengers in Shakespeare. Rather than...
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Shakespeare Among the Moderns

Richard Halpern - 1997 - 308 pages
...an announcement so traumatic, so unexpected that its advent grips the body in a deathly jouissance. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...
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The First Quarto of Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 148 pages
...that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I would a tale unfold, whose lightest word 10 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,...their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 45 SH HORATIO ] Q1 (II or.I; ,Mar. F, Q2 48 itself? - ] 1hu etln; itself? Hnbbard. ll einer; itsclle,...
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Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History

Karen Halttunen, Lewis Perry - 1998 - 372 pages
...claimed to write despite direct prohibitions against revealing any of the secrets of their incarceration: "But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my...unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul." Others charged that the authorities had deliberately extended their institutionalization to prevent...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 324 pages
...that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,...combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. 20 But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...
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The Little Theater's Production of 'Hamlet': A Play

Jean Battlo - 1999 - 76 pages
...days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy eyes, like stars, start from their spheres. (Adds without a pause.) How am I doing? LAUREN. (Begins...
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