 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;...  The Twentieth Century - Page 7011924Full view - About this book
 | Peter Hasenberg - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 396 pages
...erscheint aber nicht mehr als eine inszenierte Welt, die Vorstellungen scheinen sich eher aufzudrängen: "Give me an ounce of civet , good apothecary,/ To sweeten my imagination" (IV. vi. 128-129) . Lear zeigt in seinem 'vernünftigen1 Wahnsinn eine veränderte Haltung gegenüber... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 244 pages
...the natural processes are in themselves ennobling, however necessary they may be to human existence. "Pah ! pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. . . ." When Gloucester says : "O let me kiss that hand," Lear replies : "Let me wipe it first ; it... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 118 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,... | |
 | Lillian Feder - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 356 pages
...there's hell, there's 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... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Drama - 1988 - 226 pages
...there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothecary, Sweeten my imagination. (4.6.126-31) 6 In The Winter's Tale this nausea appears to be awakened in some... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...mortality on his own hands: 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.... | |
 | John Chapman - Drama - 1992 - 92 pages
...There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphorous pit Burning, scalding, stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie, pah! Pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good Apothecary, lo sweeten my imagination. There's money for thee. RUPERT. There's a couple of quid for thee too. (Pretends... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet: good apothecary, sweeten my imagination: there's money for thee. Gloucester: O, let me kiss that hand! Lear: Let me... | |
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