 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... | |
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