 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;...  Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 218edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption9; — fie, fie, fie ! 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 firsti; it smells of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 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. O let me kiss that hand ! Lear. Let me wipe it first ; it smells of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption9; — fie, fie, fie ! 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 firsti; it smells of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
..., there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stencb, consumption; — fie, fie, fie! 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... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...mountebanking and chanting ! with liberty-caps, and other wretched trumpery of sans culotte foolery ! "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination!" 364 STATE OF PARTIES. In short, it was evident that the government was, if possible, to be forced from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption ; — fie, fie, fie ! pah ; pah ! rat. Cym. What's this, Cornelius ? Cor. The queen, sir, very oft impo : there's money for thee. Glo. O, let me kiss that hand ! Lear. L et me wipe it first ; it smells of... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - Labor - 1847 - 300 pages
...visage livid and bloated, her tongue ribald, and her frame a mass of ulcerous corruption. Faugh ! " Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination !" You may well exclaim thus; but the more you are disgusted, the more just is your impression; and... | |
 | Seth T. Hurd - English language - 1848 - 136 pages
...medicines are prepared or sold ; and an apothecary is he who prepares, sells, or deals in them ; as, " Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." — SHAHS. " They have no other doctor but the sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1878 - 668 pages
...Peirce, perfumers, Bond Street. Shakspeare, in King Lear, shows who sold the article in his time : " Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination " ; and Cowper (Conversation, 1. 283) lets us know that, in his days, gentlemen were perfumed with... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 640 pages
...attributed to the civet were numerous and various ; but, in course of time, it has been entirely laid uside, even as a perfume ; so that, at this time, the words...me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten rey imagination," might be frequently repeated, e%-en in our large cities, with slight probability... | |
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