 I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 551edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 374 pages
...what was going on in her bosom breaks forth. When urging Macbeth to act, she speaks as if she held the strongest ties of human nature in contempt : — "...resembled her father in his sleep. This is not the lady to pluck the nipple from the boneless gums of her infant, and dash out its brains. Her language... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 400 pages
...what was going on in her bosom breaks forth. When urging Macbeth to act, she speaks as if she held the strongest ties of human nature in contempt : — "...unnatural — so destitute of maternal, of womanly feeling 1 No. In the next scene we find her deterred from actual participation in killing Duncan, because he... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...love the kabe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums, And dashed the brains out — had I but so sworn As you have done to this." Even here, horrific as she is, she shows herself made by ambition, but not by nature, a perfectly savage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...you. I have given suck ; and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple...his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. Macb. If we should fail, — Lady M. We fail ! But screw your courage... | |
 | William Maginn - 1860 - 344 pages
...what was going on in her bosom breaks forth. When urging Macbeth to act, she speaks as if she held the strongest ties of human nature in contempt. " I have...sworn As you have done to this." Is she indeed so unnatural—so destitute of maternal, of womanly feeling? No. In the next scene we find her deterred... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple...his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this. 1 1 08 Mac. If we should fail,— LM We fail: but screw your courage... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple...his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. Macb. If we should fail, — Lady M. We fail ! But screw your courage... | |
 | Robert Duthie - English poetry - 1866 - 202 pages
...would, while it was smiling in my. face, Have pluck'd the nipple from its boneless gums, And dash'd its brains out, had I but so sworn As you have done to this. Horror of horrors ! What a fiendish threat ! A more unnatural act does not exist in the bloody catalogue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 140 pages
...you. I have given suck ; and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me :— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his 1 boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. Macb. If we should... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 342 pages
...strongest tics of human nature should be held as in contempt, and sums her whole argument thus: — " I have given suck and know How tender 'tis to love...dashed the brains out, had I but so sworn, As you hare done to this." Heie her spirit seems to be one of mere bravado in 4eiqg Micbcth's infirmity of... | |
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