| Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 Seiten
...properties ; and it seems also to have been well known as an opiate in the time of Shakspeare, who says, Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world, Shall ever med'cine thee to that sweet sleep. In the Hist. Plant, ascript. Boerhaave, it is stated that this plant... | |
| 1856 - 784 Seiten
...soul of № two has, I fear, dared too ranch, in daring tW meeting. Go, Sir! — 3-Ю 311 Not poppies, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world, Shall ever medicine tliee to that sweet sleep Which thoa ow'dst yesterday ! Make the best you can of it. But there... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 Seiten
...where own would be now employed ; as in lago's diabolical self-gratulation (in Othello, iii. 3); " Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday." The Anglo-Saxon word is agon, —... | |
| Charles Cowden Clarke - 1863 - 546 Seiten
...approaches, after he has poisoned his mind against his ill-starred wife : — " Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owd'st yesterday." The character of lago alone, in this... | |
| William Swinton - 1864 - 312 Seiten
...radishe roote, divided into two or three partcs, and sometimes one upon another, almost lyke the Ihiglies and legges of a man." It was, moreover, supposed that...asserted to be a contraction from St. Audrey (or Saint Ethelrida) — a name commonly applied to an annual fair held on SL Audrey's day, and at which all... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 Seiten
...where own would be now employed ; as in lago's diabolical self-gratulation (in Othello, Hi. 3):— " Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday." The original English word is dgcm,—the... | |
| Henry Buckley Charlton - 1924 - 216 Seiten
...as an antidote, he says gloatingly about him — Not poppy, nor mandragora Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world Shall ever medecine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. As we read, we have but the vaguest notions about mandragora, the sort of plant it... | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 206 Seiten
...unto my sceptre ? or restore My mind to that tranquillity and peace It then enjoyed ? Shakespeare : Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops...ever medecine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. Massinger's is a general rhetorical question, the language just and pure, but colourless.... | |
| Walt Whitman - 2007 - 403 Seiten
...corruption from mandregora — the peculiar soporific effects of which a familiar passage in Othello have imprinted on the reader's memory: Not poppy,...history. For it is asserted to be a contraction from St. Aubrey (or Saint Ethelrida) — a name commonly applied to an annual fair held at St. Audrey's day,... | |
| T. S. Eliot - 1997 - 146 Seiten
...how unto my sceptre? or restore My mind to that tranquillity and peace It then enjoyed? Shakespearr Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops...ever medecine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. Massinger's is a general rhetorical question, the language just and pure, hut colourless.... | |
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