| Alexander John Ellis - 1833 - 360 pages
...superlatives. We have here the comparative degree of a superlative superlative .'.'.' § " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Haze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivion's antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...alarmed with the recollection of his crimes, anxiously enquired of his physician, — " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Rase out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 350 pages
...Venice. Thou hast it now — and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for it. — Macbeth. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Rase out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the foul... | |
| Richard Treffry - Apologetics - 1834 - 222 pages
...objects which are supposed in any measure capable of affording satisfaction ? — " Canst them not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...dying man all night." He then emphatically broke out in the words of Shakspeare, " Canst tii. H i not minister to a mind diseased; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stufTd... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1835 - 592 pages
...of cares. He turns to every man but to him by whom he could be delivered, and asks, " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Rase out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...dying man all night." He then emphatically broke out in the words of Shakspeare, — " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...from the speech that he has just made you, a philosopher, and a moralist. Unlike Macbeth's physician, he — " Can minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
| Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 370 pages
...state of his patient's mind, in one of the most pathetic passages of this noble play : " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Rase out the written troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. Macb. Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the... | |
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