 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 Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 136by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Thew - 1825 - 144 pages
...into tears * : According to this plan, it must be seen That Mrs. SIDOONS was the Tragic Queen. • " I have given suck, and know " How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : " I wou'd, while it was smiling in my face, " Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, " And dashed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...yet you woult' fiake both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. * he substance, Or the division of the twentieth part oabe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 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...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this. Macb. If we should fail, LadyM. We fail! But screw your courage... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 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...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (Macbeth, i. vii. 54) Compare : Peace, peace ! Dost thou not see... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 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.../ 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 pages
...followed by the most striking and most notorious instance of the image, in Lady Macbeth's infamous lines: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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... | |
 | Susanne Skubal - 2002 - 182 pages
...particular the once nurturing maternal is shown to be capable of perversion to a remarkable ferocity: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 212 pages
...which contrast with willed ruthlessness : Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't and: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me were both too tense with determination to suggest, as they did for Mrs Siddons and many Lady Macbeth's... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 pages
...love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? (I.vii.35-41) I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe tFFat milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipples from his boneless... | |
 | Sigmund Freud - 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...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. A single stirring of resistance seizes her before the deed is performed... | |
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