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" 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.... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators - Page 125
by William Shakespeare - 1806
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello. Antony ...

William Shakespeare - 1868 - 558 pages
...ccs virtue, and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name , — The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to't With a more riotous appetite. Down from...is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: King Lear. 1880

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 pages
...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name, — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...all above ; But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 1 20 125 1 14. Man] Than were Cap. 115. sheets.] sheets, were unto me. Ktly. 1 1 6. lack'] want Qt....
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Works, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 pages
...virtue, — ] That affects the coy timidity of virtue. .The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 646 pages
...and does shake the head To hear of pleasure's name; — The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist...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...
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The Anatomy of Disgust

William Ian Miller - Family & Relationships - 1997 - 340 pages
...monstrous, hellish, and vile, disgust-evoking places. Recall Lear's image: Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah! pah! But I suspect that the reason vaginas are capable of evoking disgust depends on something more than...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 196 pages
...124 Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, 126 Beneath is all the fiend's. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous...fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet; good apothe- BO cary, sweeten my imagination! There's money for thee. GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand....
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A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape

Keith Burgess-Jackson - Rape - 1999 - 323 pages
...suggest was written after Shakespeare learned he had contracted syphilis, in which Lear says of women: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, There is the sulphurous pit — burning, scalding, Stench,...
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Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

Wendy Doniger - Religion - 1999 - 390 pages
...sexuality through the image of a female centaur conceived in terms strongly reminiscent of Scylla: Down from the waist they are Centaurs, / Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, / Beneath is all the fiend's: there's hell, there's darkness, / There is the sulphurous pit — burning scalding, / Stench,...
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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature, Volume 16

Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...and the Figures of Speech by Craig Kallendorf "He apprehends a world of figures here." (IHenI¥lm209) "Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women...the girdle do the Gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiend's." (KL IV.vi. 123-26) Madeleine Doran has observed that "English Renaissance drama is rhetorical...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...however, extends beyond a general misogyny, given its quintessential Shakespearean expression in Lear's "But to the girdle do the gods inherit / Beneath is...hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit" (4.6.126-28)18 — in which the female body, with its rapacious desires, figures the antithesis of...
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