 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1864 - 648 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 porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh... | |
 | Robert H. Kellogg - United States - 1865 - 412 pages
...hundreds of others. I had a feeling quite in sympathy with that of the immortal poet, when he wrote, " But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." A number of cavalry-men were captured in the attack upon Macon, and found their way to our dwelling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...And for 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...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 1 To ears of flesh... | |
 | James Moore - Generals - 1865 - 252 pages
...Belle Isle ! Many a shadow, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, might truly say of the secrets of his prison-house : " I could a tale unfold, whose lightest...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine!" This is no exaggeration; confinement, filth, and starvation sent many to their long homes ; and, if... | |
 | Emmeline Lott - Egypt - 1865 - 370 pages
...language of the Prince of Poets— " But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of the prison-house, I would a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The Tchiboukdji immediately produced a small key and opened the box. HH the Grand Pacha gazed with... | |
 | 1865 - 391 pages
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 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...And, for the Jay confined to fast in tires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the...part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quiUs upon the fretful porcupine : Hut this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood :... | |
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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... 
