 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...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. But that I am forbid To tell the...prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 400 pages
...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 forbid To tell the 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... | |
 | James Phillips, James Morley - Medical - 2003 - 292 pages
...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 whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul. . . . (act 1 , sc. v) The second thing King Hamlet tells his son is to prevent the "royal bed of Denmark"... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - Philosophy - 2003 - 462 pages
...so from its excess; for horror, as I conceive, is nothing more than fear worked up to an extremity: I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy souLx IT is on this same principle, that certain passions are found to add beauty or deformity to the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Wills - Philosophy - 2005 - 248 pages
...imparts concerning his murder is overlaid, on the one hand, with an interdiction regarding speaking ("But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house I could a tale unfold . . ." [1.5.13-15]), and on the other hand, with anxiety about the time permitted him to talk and about... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Fiction - 2005 - 718 pages
...St. Aubert was for a time too devoid of comfort himself to bestow any on his daughter. CHAPTER II / could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. SHAKESPEARE. MADAME St. Aubert was interred in the neighbouring village church: her husband and daughter... | |
 | Zsuzsa Rawlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 214 pages
...orgy of authorial slickness, what ultimately comes through is the author's "sincerely felt" belief: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold [...] But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (I, v, 14-21) However; if there... | |
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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 on end, like quills upon the fretful porpentine ; 20 But this eternal... 
