 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 333by Alexander Graydon - 1811 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart, Mark A. Noll - Religion - 1999 - 358 pages
...mishmash of materialism, phrenology, and transmutation, Sedgwick was driven to quoting Shakespeare: "[G]ive me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." 9 It is obvious that evangelical interest in science has often had such negative features, when appraising... | |
 | Charles H. Frey - Drama - 1999 - 228 pages
...fail to register my own disgust. That "Pah!" must be mine upon reading Lear, as well Lear. Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. There's money for thee. Gloucester. O, let me kiss that hand! Lear. Let me wipe it first. (4.6.130-33)... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 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 thee. [IV.vi. 107-31] pique allí donde él la juzgaba más absoluta: en la relación... | |
 | Harriet Devine - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 442 pages
...advice proffered to girls by Dr. Gregory and other writers of the same stamp, one is inclined to cry, "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." The essence of the absurdity now under consideration was dissimulation, and dissimulation was, we find,... | |
 | Lazare Rivière - Medical - 2005 - 240 pages
...beaver, and so on) was also used medicinally for nervous disorders, hysteria, convulsions and mania: "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination" (King Lear, Act 4, scene 6). A hard substance deposited on the sea-bed, mostly composed of the calcareous... | |
 | Dietland Muller-Schwarze - Nature - 2006 - 423 pages
...biogeographic pattern in antiherbivore defense" (Clausen etal, 2004). Practical applications of semiochemicals Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination S HAKES PE ARE -.King Lear ActIV,sc. 6, 1.132 Smelly secretions as repellents: "The devil can be completely... | |
 | Todd Howard James Pettigrew - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 206 pages
...comfort: 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. (4.6.123-27) When Romeo rushes off to find the Apothecary he is more like Beaufort... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2007 - 260 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 thee. Gloucester O, let me kiss that hand! Lear Let me wipe it first, it smells of... | |
 | Yvonne Nilges - Opera - 2007 - 198 pages
...des Weibes einz'ger Grundstoff (S. 190). Vgl. Hamlet, I, 2, Vs. 146: „frailty, thy name is woman". Give me an ounce of civet; good apothecary, To sweeten my imagination. TTiere's money for thee. (Ebd., Vs. 121-126) Beim jungen Wagner treten hier noch krankheitsthematische... | |
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