 | Zsuzsa Rawlinson - 2006 - 214 pages
...orgy of authorial slickness, what ultimately comes through is the author's "sincerely felt" belief: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold [...] But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. (I, v, 14-21) However; if there... | |
 | Elaine L. Robinson - 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 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... | |
 | Pamela Dean - 2006 - 484 pages
...certain well-known lines that she had been happily chewing over since she was seven or eight years old I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul Oh, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2007 - 188 pages
...torture of the body would extend even to one who hears about "the secrets of my prison-house" (1.5.14): 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 knotty and combined locks to part. And each... | |
 | Sandi Toksvig - 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 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... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia - 2007 - 16 pages
..."secrets" (1.5.14). He describes not the secrets, therefore, but the effect they would have if disclosed: 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... | |
 | Sandi Toksvig - 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 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... | |
 | João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - 2007 - 477 pages
...(2.2.554-559) and the Ghost's description of the effect that his tale of torment would have on Hamlet: 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 knotty and combined locks to part, And each... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 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. "Confined to fast in fires" of his "prison-house," the ghost of Hamlet's father underscores the point... | |
 | Justus Nieland - 2008 - 336 pages
...ofNightwood, YCAL. 17. Hamlet, Pelican edition, ed. Willard Farnham (New York: Penguin, 1970), 1.5.15-22: 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... | |
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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... 
