...days 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 up thy soul. . . . (act 1 , sc. v) The second thing King Hamlet tells his son is to prevent the "royal bed of Denmark"...

...so from its excess; for horror, as I conceive, is nothing more than fear worked up to an extremity: I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy souLx IT is on this same principle, that certain passions are found to add beauty or deformity to the...

...transform Hamlet into a monstrous figure: 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 fearful porpentine. (1.v.13-zo) The bulging eyes and the hair standing on end recall the mythic Medusa from whose head...

...de la sensibilité bourgeoise, et avec une émouvante médiocrité, l'inspiration shakespearienne1. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood. (Ham. 1.5. 15-16) L'émergence du roman gothique coïncide également avec un regain d'intérêt pour...

...From the early ghost-scene, in which the Ghost, released from earlier silence by Hamlet's presence, ...could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, and whose departure provokes in Hamlet an immediate act of erasure, of writing, and of swearing: Remember...

...days 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 up thy soul. (1.5.9-16) Shakespeare had to be careful: plays were censored, and it would not have been permissible...

...days 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...combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh...

...awhile, and let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our stay. [Hamlet I i 30] / could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start jrom their spheres, Thy knotted locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills...

...St. Aubert was for a time too devoid of comfort himself to bestow any on his daughter. CHAPTER II / could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. SHAKESPEARE. MADAME St. Aubert was interred in the neighbouring village church: her husband and daughter...

...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...particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.39 Similarly relevant, also, is the fact that Gulliver, like Hamlet, listens to...