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" With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption;... "
Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty ... - Page 333
by Alexander Graydon - 1811 - 378 pages
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The Adventurer, Volume 3

English essays - 1823 - 298 pages
...severe reflections on the hypocrisy of lewd and abandoned women, and adds, " Fie, fie, fie ; pah, pah ; give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination ;" and as every object seems to be present to the eyes of the lunatic, he thinks he pays for the drug...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical ..., Volumes 25-26

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...severe reflections on the hypocrisy of lewd and abandoned women, and adds, " Fie, fie, fie ; pah, pah ; give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination ;' and as every object seems to be present to the eyes of the lunatic, he thinks he pays for the drug...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption ; — Fye, rye, fye ! pah ; pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination : there's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand ! Lear. Let me wipe it first ; it smells of...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 490 pages
...There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption ; — Fie, fie, fie ! pah ; pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination '.here's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss tha. hand ! Lear. Let me wipe it first : it smells of...
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The Edinburgh Dramatic Review, Volumes 3-4

1823 - 426 pages
...young man kneeling to the woman whom he admires, as his mamma, and asking her blessiug ! Pho ! ! " Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." We might be accused of injustice were we not to notice Mrs. Siddons' performance of Lady Contest. It...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...severe reflections on the hypocrisy of lewd and abandoned women, and adds, " Fie, fie, fie; pah, pah; give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination;" and as every object seems to be present to the eyes of the lunatic, he thinks he pays for the drug:...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary , to sweeten my imagination: there's money for thce. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand! Lear, Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality....
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The Plays, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption ; — Fye, fye, fye ; pah ; pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination ; there's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand ! Lear. Let me wipe it first ; it smells of...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption ; — Fie, fie, fie ! pah ; pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination : there's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand .' Lear. Let me wipe it first; it smells of...
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Scotch novel reading; or, Modern quackery, by a Cockney [S. Green].

Sarah Green - 1824 - 756 pages
...in beauty — the image of purity ! For my part, I would not touch her with a pair of tongs. Ah, ' Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." These remarks, however, he seldom uttered, except to Howard, or some others of his acquaintance, who...
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