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...days of nature, Are burnt and pnrg'd away. But that I am forbk To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow...young blood Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from thei: spheres : Thy knotted and combined locks to part. And each particular hair to stand an-end, Like...

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...instance being the coffin):17 Oh Reader! — But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of the prison-house I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow...freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, shoot from their spheres. . . . MIRACLES OF THE DEAD In our graveyards with winter winds blowing There's...

...of him. TOM: Foh, about my brain! JAC: 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, DEN: Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are...

...the vulnerable young man — take the form of a boast of the demonic powers to which he has access: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow...stand on end, Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. As Hamlet's later madness (sometimes manifested using a 'mask' of the symptoms of possession) demonstrates,...

...link the style and themes of The Castle of Otranto to Shakespeare's tragedies. See: Hamlet, Ivi6-i8. "I could a tale unfold whose lightest word/ Would...two eyes, like stars,/ Start from their spheres." See: EL Burney, "Shakespeare in Otranto" Manchester Review 12 (1972): 61-64. 2 Specter or ghost. pretence...

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...horror: 'Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres' • make his hair stand on end: 'The knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end' C Individual answers: • Believe the Ghost: evidence can be gleaned from the introduction (italics)....