...the masculine or the feminine. In the poets, we constantly lind whose referring to neuter nouns : as, But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house,...unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. — Hamlet, i. 5. But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose...

...set my life at a pin's fee. Act \. Sc. 4. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Act i. Sc. 4. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house...unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; free2e thy young blood : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and...

...unfold - The Ghost speaks to Hamlet: "But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my prison-house, / 1 could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul" (I. v. 13-16). 8.420 (162:36). a G man - A member of the "G," or plainclothes intelligence division...

...GOTHIC FICTION GOTHIC FORM George E. Haggerty Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form Gothic Fiction/ Gothic Form "I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul . . ." George E. Haggerty THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS University Park and London One L2Y6-7KN-G1ZD...

...so within a plausible new syntax as well, as "serpent's tongue" does not. Says the ghost to Hamlet: "I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul" (1 .5. 15-16). Few actors could manage, or would trouble, to disambiguate the junctural slippage and...

...GHOST. I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my...whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze they young blood Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotty and combined locks...

...mysteries that cannot be uncovered or made visible to the eye.55 This is the language of the Ghost's "But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my...unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul" (1.5.13—16), or the soliloquy "To be or not to be" with its evocation of death as an "undiscover'd...

...us with the following entry:] 1602 Shaks. Ham I.1.44 It harrowes me with fear and wonder. Ibidl.5.16 'I could a Tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soule', to vex, disturb... to castrate' 1753 'He wants to harrow him [a horse] this Spring'. There...

...skills are striking: he commands attention by describing the effects of the story that he could tell ("I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood"), and then closes the narrative before he tells it with the remark that it cannot be told to "ears of...

...frequently uses Shakespearean epigraphs, like this one from Hamlet for the second chapter of Udolpho: "I could a tale unfold / Whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul." Radcliffe appears to take it for granted that Shakespeare's sublime tragedies plumb the depths of human...