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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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Aspects of King Lear

Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 116 pages
...peculiar dexterity with which they walk the precipice between the figurative and the true, as in Lear's, Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: or in his, Let me have surgeons; I am cut to the brains. This technique is, I am convinced, deliberate,...
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Madness in Literature

Lillian Feder - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 356 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, 126-34) In dramatizing Lear's symbolic transformation of his turbulent...
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A Life's Morning

George Gissing - Fiction in English - 1984 - 418 pages
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Homer to Joyce

Wallace Gray - Literature - 1985 - 332 pages
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The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism, Volume 2

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 544 pages
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1986 - 320 pages
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Drama in the Renaissance: Comparative and Critical Essays

Clifford Davidson, C. J. Gianakaris, John H. Stroupe - Drama - 1986 - 360 pages
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Browning's Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty

David E. Latané - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 154 pages
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