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 I so sworn as you Have done to this. The British Essayists;: Observer - Page 127by Alexander Chalmers - 1807Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...ministers, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, &c. I hare giĀ»en sack, and know how tender 'tis To love the babe that milks me, &c. And lastly, in the momentof extremes! horror comes that unexpected touch of feeling, so startling,... | |
| Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does 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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums And dash'd the... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...speeches that Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... 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, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless... | |
| Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... 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... | |
| Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? 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... | |
| Roberta S. Kremer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 280 pages
...early on by Lady Macbeth, who, in order to spur Macbeth's ambition towards killing Duncan, says to him: "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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 514 pages
...and yet you wish'd for both; And now th' have made themselves; how you betray Your Cowardize ? I've given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the Babe that milks me ; 2 would, whilst it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my Nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd... | |
| Sarah Werner - Art - 2001 - 148 pages
...woman's hreasts. / And take my milk for gall" 1 .5.39. 45 6i; more horrific is her threat of infanticide: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the hahe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face. Have phtcked my nipple from his honeless... | |
| George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...contrast our two visions neatly with reference to the life-image of babyhood. Lady Macbeth speaks: 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... | |
| Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...her femininity. Her imagination is so extremely cruel precisely because her fantasy remains feminine: "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... | |
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