 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
 | Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson - English language - 1872 - 844 pages
...sweeter.— B. & F. foA I one may smell in such a wUl most rank. Shakesp. Fit l ße I fie I pah ! pah I give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. — Shakesp. The interjection is found in similar forms in most languages. Fr. pouahl faugh ! an interj.... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1872 - 482 pages
...\ispaft hands." — TabU Talk. Shakespeare has it as an interj. : " Fie, J$ e, Ji_ e ! pah I pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." — Lear, iv. 6. (5) Protestation — indeed, in faith, perdy, gad,1 egad, ecod, ods, odd, odd's bob,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 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. 0, let me kiss that hand ! LEAB. Let me wipe it first ; it smells of... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. Act iv. Sc. 6. Ay, every inch a king. Act iv. Sc. 6. Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Act iv. Sc. 6. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Act... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 258 pages
...other by a comma, the exclamation being put only after the last ; as, " Fie, fie, fie ! pah, pah ! give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." 4. Two of the interjections, eh and hey, are sometimes uttered in a peculiar tone, so as to ask a question.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 310 pages
...do not, call me villain and baffle me. Falstaff. ist Henry IV., Act i. Sc. 2. PERFUMES [871-2]. .... Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination : PERIL [386]. As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud On the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 504 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 mortality.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 234 pages
...a king: When I do stare, see how the subject quakes. I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause ? Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there 's money for thee. Glou. O, let me kiss that hand! no Lear. Let me wipe it first; it smells of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...at the expense of taste and manners. They deserve the rebuke of Lear, ' Fie, fie, fie ! Pah, pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.' They have, we must suppose, been thoughtless rather than deliberately offensive, and having been dealt... | |
 | S. L. Goldberg - Drama - 1974 - 212 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 . . . (iv, vi, iioff) If this 'imagination' of the world is too harshly particular to be wholly false,... | |
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