 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 Michael Stoddart - Medical - 1990 - 304 pages
...much in demand in its undiluted form as a stimulant and for relieving depression. Thus said King Lear: Give me an ounce of civet, Good Apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. (Act IV Scene VI I. 133.) It was also employed as an aphrodisiac with the power to attract the opposite... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 456 pages
...beginning to take on the manner and matter of the vanished Fool: he speaks reason in riddle and metaphor. Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, To sweeten my imagination. There's money for thee (132-134). This has been said in the theatre with humor, with serious, gracious... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...Lear 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. Glou. O! let me kiss that hand. Lear Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...darkness, There's the sulphury pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consummation. Fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, To sweeten my imagination. 125 There's money for thee. 94 white] Q; the white F '94-5 To say ... was] Oxford (after Blayney);... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...darkness, there's 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. (4.4.109-34) However dominant any one note in the first appearances of the... | |
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