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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... "
A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ... - Page 75
by British poets - 1824
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 554 pages
...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 my prison-house,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, 0 list ! — If...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...confin'd to fast iri ¡ins. 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 my prison-house,...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an-end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But tills eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...
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Lectures delivered at literary and mechanics' institutions. Sequel

William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...fainting fits which afford a momentary relief. Shakspeare describes the effects of fear as follows : — " 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...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...confined to fast in fires, 1 Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burned and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...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...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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 secrets of my prison-house,...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...
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Mnemotechny, or art of memory, theoretical and practical: with a ...

Pliny Miles - 1850 - 374 pages
...The sinewy vigor of the traveler. Love's Labor's Lost — Act 4, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A FARM. 65. — But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Hamlet — Act 1, Sc. 5. SHAKSPEARE. A TALE. 66. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's...
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Mnemotechny, Or Art of Memory ...: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary

Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...The sinewy vigor of the traveler. Love's Labor's Lost — Act 4, Sc. 3. SHAKSPEARE. A FARM. 65. — But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. Hamlet — Act 1, Sc. 5. SHAKSPEARE. A TALE. 66. In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burned and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. — List, list, 0 list ! — If thou...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...confined to fast in fires,1 Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burned and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.2 But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. — List, list, O, list...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...confined to fast in fires,1 Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burned and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house...hair to stand on end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.2 But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.— List, list, O, list...
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