 | 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...their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.39 Similarly relevant,... | |
 | 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...their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The officer nodded.... | |
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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... 
