 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
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...condemn. And what is held in tension is not only two senses but two basic attitudes — utter revulsion ('Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, To sweeten my imagination'), on the one hand: on the other an unconditional and unquestioning charity, of the kind that had allowed... | |
 | 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
...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 - 116 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
...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... | |
 | 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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