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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... "
The Mysterious Freebooter: Or, The Days of Queen Bess. A Romance ... - Page 160
by Francis Lathom - 1806
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Hunting Cockroaches and Other Plays

Janusz Głowacki - Drama - 1990 - 226 pages
...of nature Art 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...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst...
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Meaning and Being in Myth

Norman Austin - Social Science - 2010 - 280 pages
...compassion with hints of the tortures he is suffering in the sulphurous flames of the other world: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. (Iv 15-20) Hamlet's young soul is harrowed sufficiently by the vision before his eyes;...
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...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...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. ao But things eternal blazoned must not be 28 To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...of nature Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I 80 On their own porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (I, v) NAWM-1; OBD 27 But...
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The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics

Martha Woodmansee - Art - 1994 - 224 pages
...souls, freeze your young blood, 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. (ActI,V, 1s-20) 12 Nor is Burger overreaching. Readers of the Gottinger Musen-Almanach fur 1774, where...
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The History of Hell

Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 77; V knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular...hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Hamlet, though convinced of his uncle's guilt by his "mousetrap" ruse, will not kill Claudius...
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Languages of Visuality: Crossings Between Science, Art, Politics, and Literature

Beate Allert - Literary Collections - 1996 - 292 pages
...depend on language to appall his son: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (Hamlet 1.5.13-22) This...
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Hamlet

Drama - 1996 - 264 pages
...(continuing) / could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular...stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood THE GHOST becomes quietly impassioned....
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Visions of the Other World in Middle English

Robert Easting - Fiction - 1997 - 142 pages
...required to be silent about his pains: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. 3 For a discussion of the fifteenth-century ME prose visions - Stranton, the Revelation...
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Murder on Deck!: Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories

Rosemary Herbert - Fiction - 1998 - 360 pages
...she had formulated some master plan. I refilled my glass and told her: "I could a tale unfold" Hilda "whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: . . ." "Oh come on, I bet it wouldn't." My wife was sceptical. "What you need, Rumpole,...
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