 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
 | Medicine - 1882 - 792 pages
...derselbe, nachdem er seiner Phantasie die Zügel hat schiessen gelassen: „ — fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination". *) Opera. Ed. Lugdun. 1667. Demens Idea. p. 174. §. 38 ff. Curiosins enim inquisivi plures amentes... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice. Act iv. Sc. 6. Ay, every inch a king. Act iv. Sc. 6. Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Act'™. Sc. 6. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Act... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1871 - 364 pages
...dread for to-morrow. — Up, comrades, up I — Away with him to prison ! Fie, fie, fie ! pah, pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for thee. Ah the laborious indolence of him who has nothing to do ! the preying weariness,... | |
 | Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson - English language - 1872 - 844 pages
...sweeter.— B. & F. foA I one may smell in such a wUl most rank. Shakesp. Fit l ße I fie I pah ! pah I give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. — Shakesp. The interjection is found in similar forms in most languages. Fr. pouahl faugh ! an interj.... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1872 - 482 pages
...\ispaft hands." — TabU Talk. Shakespeare has it as an interj. : " Fie, J$ e, Ji_ e ! pah I pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." — Lear, iv. 6. (5) Protestation — indeed, in faith, perdy, gad,1 egad, ecod, ods, odd, odd's bob,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 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. 0, let me kiss that hand ! LEAB. Let me wipe it first ; it smells of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 258 pages
...other by a comma, the exclamation being put only after the last ; as, " Fie, fie, fie ! pah, pah ! give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination." 4. Two of the interjections, eh and hey, are sometimes uttered in a peculiar tone, so as to ask a question.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice. Act iv. Sc. 6. Ay, every inch a king. Act iv. Sc. 6. Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Act iv. Sc. 6. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Act... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...at the expense of taste and manners. They deserve the rebuke of Lear, ' Fie, fie, fie ! Pah, pah ! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.' They have, we must suppose, been thoughtless rather than deliberately offensive, and having been dealt... | |
 | S. L. Goldberg - Drama - 1974 - 212 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 . . . (iv, vi, iioff) If this 'imagination' of the world is too harshly particular to be wholly false,... | |
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