 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...days 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 whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Art - 2002 - 152 pages
...phrases in inverted quotation marks are in English in the original. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.5.15-20: "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would...locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine." 22. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4.120-23. Herder cites... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Art - 2002 - 152 pages
...phrases in inverted quotation marks are in English in the original. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.5.15-20: "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would...locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine." 22. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4.120-23. Herder cites... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 340 pages
...of nature Are burnì and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secreta of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end Like quills upon the fretful porpentìne.... | |
 | Robert J. Pellegrini, Theodore R. Sarbin - Fathers and Sons - 2002 - 256 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...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... | |
 | Jan Bondeson - Burial - 2002 - 324 pages
...instance being the coffin):17 Oh Reader! — But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of the prison-house I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow...freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, shoot from their spheres. . . . MIRACLES OF THE DEAD In our graveyards with winter winds blowing There's... | |
 | Hilaire Kallendorf - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 366 pages
...the vulnerable young man — take the form of a boast of the demonic powers to which he has access: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. As Hamlet's later madness (sometimes manifested using... | |
 | 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... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 15 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,...two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful... | |
 | Sarah Hatchuel - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 204 pages
...transform Hamlet into a monstrous figure: 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 on end, Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. (1.v.13-zo) The bulging eyes and the hair standing... | |
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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, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And... 
