 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 344 pages
...Lady M. What beast was it then. That made you break this enterprize to me ? When you durst do it, then you were a man ; And, to be more than what you were,...to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...Jjady M. What beast was't then, That made yon break this enterprize to me ? When youdurst doit, then on'sonce; And much too little of thatgoodl saw, Is...hi* great worthiness. /.'"<. Another of these stude adhere,and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...: tell them so, Decius. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. 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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had... | |
 | Sigmund Freud - Psychology - 2003 - 388 pages
...Come to my woman's breasts. And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers. (Act I, Scene 7): 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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had... | |
 | Robert Smallwood - Drama - 2003 - 252 pages
...of the new-born babe, yet is most shockingly described in Lady Macbeth's speech in the same scene: 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... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...king, she will be queen. But the lie of the tragedy is not slow to emerge when she says to Macbeth, ... to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. (Macbeth I 7 50-1) It is the lie of our lives when we desire to become something "more' than ourselves.... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Drama - 2003 - 276 pages
...something like the idea of men as beasts, then this tells another way to hear her puzzling continuation: To be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man (I, vii, 50-1). That is: To be more beast is to be more man. In this way of thinking, her sexual taunt... | |
 | Jill Baker, Clare Constant, David Kitchen - English language - 2003 - 196 pages
...hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? ... Art thou afeard ... ... I have given suck, and know 15 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... | |
 | Margaret Sönser Breen - Good and evil - 2003 - 242 pages
...then That made you hreak this emerprise to me? When you durst do it. then you were a man: And. to he more than what you were. you would Be so much more the man. 43 Having estahlished that she knows what it is to he a "real man." and her hushand has forgotten.... | |
 | Robert Ornstein - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 318 pages
...Lady. What beast was 't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man: And to be more than what you were,...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... | |
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Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than... 
