 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...They have made themselves, and that their fitness now [know Does unmake you. I have given suck ; and How tender 'tis, to love the babe that milks me: I...was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, [you And dash d the brains out, had I so sworn, as Have done to this. "•tin I-.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 360 pages
...that their fitness Lady M. What beast was it then, now Does unmake you. I have given suck ; andTcnow How tender 'tis, to love the babe that milks me: I...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. Macb. If we... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...of that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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. (54-58) I say... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...she invokes the spirits of murder to suck her breasts, and that in which she finally goads Macbeth : I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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. (i, vii, 54-9)... | |
 | 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...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. (Macbeth, i.... | |
 | 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.../ 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... | |
 | Susanne Skubal - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 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... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 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... | |
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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. 
