 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...hundred thousand individuals are said to have perished. — LINGARD. I should have liked to go with him. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul. — SHAKS. He may either go or stay, as he best likes. — LoCKE. X. VOICES OF VERBS. KULE I. 316.... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...mysterious insinuations of dreadful secrets his bosom was the repository of; — if so inclined he "could a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul ; " but Moore, who understood him well enough to know that all the dreadful nonsensical revelations... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...d:iy, 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...prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word ' O Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...Eesounded; and had earth been then, all earth Had to her centre shook. Paradioe Loit, b. vi. 1. 207. Ghost. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whoso lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars,... | |
 | George Currey - 1856 - 228 pages
...forward gently. uncertain event dependent on some condition. You would go, if I told you to do so. I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. — Shakspeare. ie Would harrow up thy soul, if I unfolded it. The case is put as a mere supposition,... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 pages
...adduced as a parallel, alungside of this majestic simplicity has a tone of rant or extravagance : " Rut that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I tvuM a talc unfold, whose lightest word Wmikl lurrtiw up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, NUkt thv... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...fame, WHICH is bounded bij no country, will be confined to no age." (6.) Adjective element ; as, " I could a tale unfold WHOSE lightest word would harrow up thy soul." (c.) Single object; as, "The lesson WHICH she learned was too long." (d.) Double object; as, "The man... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1861 - 316 pages
...nurse rushed up to Gaspar. The last screw sent the blood to his heart, and he swooned away. CHAPTER XXL I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. SHAKESPEA.BE. IT was as Mrs. Bussel suspected. Gaspar Mountjoy, shrewd enough in all other matters,... | |
 | Colin Munro - 1862 - 366 pages
...to the Sawyers' run, to satisfy his curiosity with regard to the Sawyer paterfamilias. CHAPTER V. " I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul." HAMLET, Act. 1. Sc. 5. William leisurely followed the track of the Sawyers' dray for about an hour,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1863 - 504 pages
...Kesounded; and had earth been then, all earth Had to her centre shook. Paradise Lost, b. vi. 1. 207. Ghost. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a talc unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes,... | |
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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... 
