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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 on end, Like quills upon the... "
Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ... - Page 23
by William Shakespeare - 1836
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New Jersey Medical Reporter and Transactions of the New Jersey ..., Volume 11

Medicine - 1858 - 642 pages
...ghost, they would say to the young aspirant after the more than regal honors of the profession, — " But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood." Nor can the law be enforced. True, the District Society of Sussex County will ask yon to revoke a license...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...confin'd to lasting fires 4, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd 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 porcupine ' : But this eternal blazon must not be To cars of flesh...
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Sketch Book of Saint Louis: Containing a Series of Sketches of the Early ...

Jacob N. Taylor, M. O. Crooks - Saint Louis (Mo.) - 1858 - 454 pages
...whose brows uplift toward heaven and are bathed by the morning dew, but speak, they could, indeed, " A tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up...and combined locks to part, And each particular hair stand on end, Like quills upon the fretfulp orcupine." Thpse tall oaks, with tops upreared, and whose...
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Tales from Shakspere: For the Use of Young Persons

Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...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 secrets of...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine ; But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...
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Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A ...

Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word AVould harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make...stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Ay, sir ; that it was in fact a ghost, I do not doubt ; but that it was an honest ghost, I do doubt...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of ..., Volume 11

William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1861 - 524 pages
...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 secrets of...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. — List, Hamlet, list...
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Temple Bar, Volume 3

1861 - 584 pages
...sensation it is that Shakespeare alludes to in the terrible words of the Ghost in Hamlet : " I could a talc unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." No doubt some blighting of the plant, as it were, takes place at the moment of the shock, — this...
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Introduction to the art of reading

J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...give the same sound to this unaccented syllable as in the words show, blow, flow, &c. EXERCISE 22. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Shakspeare. Not...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature. Are burn'd and purged away. But that 1 am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:t But this eternal blazon! must not be To ears of flesh and blood :— List, list, O list...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

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...
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