 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...centre our sympathies may extend in an ever-widening circle. Lamb, ASTONISHMENT - on Unfolding a Secret. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. S/uiktpeart. ASTONISHMENT-at the Relation of a Story. Prepare to hear A story that shall turn thee... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...amid "sulf rous and tormenting flames"1: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (iv) Everywhere in the play, "Heaven's face... With heated visage, as against the doom"... | |
 | Leonard Barkan - 1985 - 216 pages
...promise to inflict an equal violence on their audience or readers. The Ghost darkly intimates to Hamlet, But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (I. vl 3-20) Although there is plenty of nonlinguistic or nondiscursive violence in the... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1989 - 256 pages
...what is actually a mode of occupatio-. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, 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 fretful porpentine. (1.5.13-20) But in reappearing to Hamlet in Gertrude's... | |
 | Norman Austin - 2010 - 280 pages
...compassion with hints of the tortures he is suffering in the sulphurous flames of the other world: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (Iv 15-20) Hamlet's young soul is harrowed sufficiently by the vision before his eyes;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 196 pages
...day confined to fast in fires27 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. ao But things eternal blazoned must not be 28 To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...days of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, ) 80 On their own porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (I, v) NAWM-1; OBD 27 But... | |
 | Mark Jay Mirsky - 1994 - 182 pages
...incarceration up to this point has been terrible. He hints of the horror of "his Prison-House." .... 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 an end Like Quills upon the fretful... | |
 | Beate Allert - 1996 - 292 pages
...have looked like any other kingly figure. He had therefore to depend on language to appall his son: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (Hamlet 1.5.13-22) This... | |
 | 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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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, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the... 
