 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...  Hamletby William Shakespeare - 1971 - 104 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 pages
...link the style and themes of The Castle of Otranto to Shakespeare's tragedies. See: Hamlet, Ivi6-i8. "I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/ Would...two eyes, like stars,/ Start from their spheres." See: EL Burney, "Shakespeare in Otranto" Manchester Review 12 (1972): 61-64. 2 Specter or ghost. pretence... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 400 pages
...walke the night; And for the day confin'd to fast in Fires, Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature Are burnt and purg'd away: But that I am...secrets of my Prison-House; I could a Tale unfold . . . (I,v).'° Every revenant seems here to come from and return to the earth, to come from it as... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...the day confined to fast in fires 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...unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. (1.5.9-16) Shakespeare had to be careful: plays were censored, and it would not have been permissible... | |
 | Anthony King - Sociology - 2004 - 290 pages
...paralyses him by confirming the existence of God and a hellish afterlife to him. As his father tells him: 'To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up they soul, freeze the young blood' (Shakespeare 1982: 216). In place of effective action in the real... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - English fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...de la sensibilité bourgeoise, et avec une émouvante médiocrité, l'inspiration shakespearienne1. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. (Ham. 1.5. 15-16) L'émergence du roman gothique coïncide également avec un regain d'intérêt pour... | |
 | Geoffrey Bennington - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 354 pages
...From the early ghost-scene, in which the Ghost, released from earlier silence by Hamlet's presence, ...could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, and whose departure provokes in Hamlet an immediate act of erasure, of writing, and of swearing: Remember... | |
 | Richard Malim - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 380 pages
...his murder. He was Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. I, v, 10-13 Darnley habitually went around in full armour, because apparently he thought he looked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...day confined to fast in fires, 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...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...awhile, and let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our stay. [Hamlet I i 30] / could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start jrom their spheres, Thy knotted locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills... | |
 | Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...day confined to fast in fires, 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 my prison-house I could a tale unfold [...] (1.5.9-15) The soul of the father does not have its abode in purgatory where others may do him... | |
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