 | Thomas Miller - 1844 - 474 pages
...for she was low-spirited, very sad, and had strange forebodings that she should not live long; for, "Not poppy nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups...ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou (once) hadst."—SHAKSPEARK. Godfrey and her landlady had by turns sat up with her all the previous... | |
 | Paulus (Aegineta), Paulus (Aegineta.) - 1846 - 532 pages
...into neglect. It appears to have been used as a medicine in the days of Shakespeare. lago says : " Not poppy nor mandragora Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thcc to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday." Othello. We will have occasion to treat of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...so :— Enter OTHELLO. Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora,1 Nor all the drowsy sirups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst 2 yesterday. Oth. Ha ! ha ! false to me ? to me ? logo. Why, how now, general ? no more of that.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...south of Europe, is not at present in use, but seems to have been formerly employed as a narcotic. Not poppy nor mandragora Nor all the drowsy syrups...that sweet sleep, . . Which thou ow'd'st yesterday. Othello. ATROPHIA (from a privativa and трефа.', I nourish) in Medicine, a disease belonging to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...adds — " Look where he comes ! not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the East, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday." — And he enters at this moment, like the crested serpent, crowned with his wrongs and raging for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...he adds— " Look where be comes! not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the East, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday."— And he enters at this moment, like the crested serpent, crowned with his wrongs and raging for revenge!... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - 1996 - 795 pages
...Boccaccio's Decameron™ Machiavelli's Mandragola,294 and Shakespeare's Othello. In Othello, lago says: . . . Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups...ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday.295 In Anthony and Cleopatra, the queen bemoans the absence of Antony: Cleopatra:... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 212 pages
...Cleopatra, i, 5. And when lago (Othello, iii, 5) has poisoned Othello's mind with jealousy, he gloats: Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups...Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which tl1ou owcdst yesterday. 1 Genesis xxx, 14-24. 2 Frazer, Folk Lore in the Old Testament. (1918.) ii.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...mad. And lago thinks, of Othello (iii, 3), to whom he has fed the notion of his wife's unfaithfulness, Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world Shall ever medicine you to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday. Many other writers, including Chapman, Webster,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 260 pages
...Moor: The Moor already changes with my poison: Dangerous conceits are in their nature poisons, . . . Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups...thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday. (m, iii, 325-6, 330-3) LP Wilkinson has offered the sensitive comment that 'poppy' and 'drowsy' were... | |
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Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday. 
