 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...describes purgatory as a place where the body suffers physical agony, he is for the day confined to fast in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. (1.5.1 1-13) G. Blakemore Evans glossed 'fast' as "do penance" but provided no explanation... | |
 | João Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman - Philosophy - 2007 - 477 pages
...thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. (1.5.9-13) The bland "for a certain term"— which appears merely to fill out the syllables... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...spirit," he tells his son, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confined to fast in fires Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away. He is expressly forbidden "to tell the secrets of my prison-house." Prison-house is a... | |
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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... 
