| African Americans - 1844 - 550 pages
...Fear overcame him, the perspiration streamed from off his brow, and his excessive emotion caused " each particular hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine." In this awful situation, he remembered, that if he dispossessed himself of his upper garment, turned... | |
| College students' writings, American - 1846 - 484 pages
...spark of fire which he stole from heuvcn. You doubtless think our path is strewn with flowers, but " 1 could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow...on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.*' Soda-water, ico-cream, and woodcock suppers are words not found in our vocabulary. Wo deal entirely... | |
| College students' writings, American - 1846 - 472 pages
...tale unfold, whose lightest word Would hurow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyet, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Soda-water, ice-cream, and woodcock suppers are words not found in our vocabulary. We deal entirely... | |
| George Rogers - 1846 - 210 pages
...indicated anything but a good moral development. Poor Tub felt his hat to rise involuntarily from his head, "And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The apparition continued to regard him with humorous interest for some moments, sitting much at its... | |
| Heinrich Döring - 1847 - 436 pages
...souls, freere your young blood, 72 Make your two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Your knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine *). 3$t fotít aüe mit fccfcetiben Amen tor mu nicbcrfaíícn, unb пи'ф filt bcu £^фшд(§г(£§ап,... | |
| William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine! " Fear is of great service when it assumes the form of caution, and checks a vain and foolish temerity.... | |
| Rev. M. Vicary - Religious institutions - 1847 - 342 pages
...illustrate Shakspeare's simile, when the unearthly visitant's disclosures to Hamlet threaten to make " each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The city of Rome derives not the least of its ornaments from the number and variety of its fountains.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...nature, Are burned 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...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. 9 But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.—List, list, O, list!— If thou... | |
| English literature - 1848 - 314 pages
...soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotty and combined locks to part, And each particular hair...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Against all these tremendous motives for revenge he has only the far forecasting of a powerful and... | |
| 1848 - 308 pages
...thy young hlood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spher« ; Thy knotty and comhined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." Against all these tremendous motives for revenge he has only the far forecasting of a powerful and... | |
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