 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 420 pages
...when they wanied an opiate of the most powerful kind. So Antony and Cleopatra, Act. 1. sc. 6: " give me to drink mandragora, " That I may sleep out this great gap of time " My Antony is away." So. in Heywood's Jew ofMr.lta, 16.33 : " I drank of poppy and cold mandrake juice,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 438 pages
...wanted an opiate of the most powerful kind. So Jlntuny and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. vi : " — — give me to drink mandragora, " That I may sleep out this great gap of time " My Antony is away." Sleevens. See Antmnj and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. v, Vol. XIII. Midonr.. 5 Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 518 pages
...they wanted an opiate of the most powerful kind. So, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Sc. VI. : " give me to drink mandragora, " That I may sleep out this great gap of time " My Antony is away." STEKVENS. 1 Which thou OW'DST yesterday,] To owe is, in oar anther, oftener to... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - Egypt - 1839 - 838 pages
...has not returned to-day. LAZARET OF ORSOVA. — Frontiers of Hungary. July 2. — Once more " Give me to drink Mandragora, That I may sleep out this great gap of time." At eight o'clock yesterday morning, we reached Gladova, a Servian town, situate a little below the... | |
 | Harriette Campbell - 1839 - 312 pages
...must suffer in a compa•ison she gave in, without a remonstrance, to his humour. CHAPTER II. ". Give me to drink mandragora, That I may sleep out this great gap of time." SHAKSPEAKE. " An' so you're goin' to dance next week at Monzievar dearie ?" said aunt Katie one morning,... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 428 pages
...than the notes supply may be acceptable. The word occurs again in Anthony and Cleopatra : — Give me to drink mandragora That I may sleep out this great gap of time My Anthony is away. Act i. Sc. 6. Parkinson (Paradisus Terrestris, fol. 1629, page 3/8) speaks of it... | |
 | Annie Thomas - 1867 - 328 pages
...feeling that had this been the case, she would not have put up the impotent, impassioned prayer—" Give me to drink mandragora, that I may sleep out this great gap of time." She was what he called her, " sensibly self-possessed," now that it was too late ! CHAPTER XIII. "... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardens in literature - 1878 - 316 pages
...commercially useful plant in the world, the Cotton-plant. MANDRAGORA, OR MANDRAKES. (1) Cleopatra. Give me to drink Mandragora. That I may sleep out this great gap of time, My Antony is away. Antony and, Cleopatra, act i, sc. 5. (2) lago. Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, Nor all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 234 pages
...justice of my observation " (Steevens). 330. mandragora, or mandrake, a soporific; cp. AC i. 5. 4, "Give me to drink mandragora, ... That I may sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away." 331. drowsy syrups, ie syrups that make drowsy ; proleptic. 333. owedst, didst... | |
 | Willard Nelson Clute - Botany - 1901 - 324 pages
...indolent person as "One who has eaten mandrake," Shakespeare alludes to this when Cleopatra says "Give me to drink Mandragora, that I may sleep out this great gap of time. My Anthony is away." A superstition connected with the use of the mandrake as a medicine, is that a... | |
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give me to drink mandragora, " That I may sleep out this great gap of time 
