| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 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...eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love HAMLET O God! GHOST Revenge his foul and... | |
| 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... | |
| Elaine L. Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 253 pages
...to tell Hamlet would, in Gulliver's words, make his flesh creep with a horror he could not express: 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.39 Similarly relevant, also, is the fact that Gulliver,... | |
| Margreta de Grazia - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
..."secrets" (1.5.14). He describes not the secrets, therefore, but the effect they would have if disclosed: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...stand an end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (1.5.15-20) As the sight of the Medusa turned spectators to stone, the mere mention of that dreadful... | |
| Sandi Toksvig - Juvenile Fiction - 2007 - 204 pages
...she whispered with great intensity: "... 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 porcupine." The officer nodded. He had no idea what it meant or... | |
| Sandi Toksvig - Juvenile Fiction - 2007 - 204 pages
...she whispered with great intensity: "... 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 porcupine." The officer nodded. He had no idea what it meant or... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...breath in dread to tell of this prison-house. The"lightest word" of this scorching torment, we recall, Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,...combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. The frightful vision of a realm of torment was useful... | |
| Joćo Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - Philosophy - 2007 - 477 pages
...(2.2.554-559) and the Ghost's description of the effect that his tale of torment would have on Hamlet: 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 on end Like quills upon the fretful... | |
| Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...torture of the body would extend even to one who hears about "the secrets of my prison-house" (1.5.14): 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 on end Like quills upon the fretful... | |
| Justus Nieland - Eccentrics and eccentricities - 2008 - 336 pages
...ofNightwood, YCAL. 17. Hamlet, Pelican edition, ed. Willard Farnham (New York: Penguin, 1970), 1.5.15-22: 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... | |
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