 Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 536by James Boswell - 1907Full view - About this book
 | John R. Briggs - 1988 - 82 pages
...ISHA. She is troubled with thick-coming fancies, that keep her from rest. MACBETH. Cure her of that: canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, pluck...sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stufFd bosom of the perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart? ISHA. Therein the patient must minister to herself.... | |
 | Harald William Fawkner - 1990 - 276 pages
...As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. Macb. Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...import might well indicate his awareness that there is no cure for a mind diseased: Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff... | |
 | Clara Claiborne Park - 1991 - 260 pages
...word — patient. His agonized question prefigures our modern hopes that psychiatry can work miracles: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, i And with some sweet oblivious antidote Macbeth is appealing... | |
 | Jeffrey K. Zeig - 1992 - 356 pages
...moans in her hysterical guilt. Macbeth whispers to the physician as they stand behind the curtain, Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow? Raze out the written troubles of the brain? And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 280 pages
...from self, Macbeth both plaintively and angrily demands of the doctor whether he cannot, in order to 'minister to a mind diseas'd', 'Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow' and 'Raze out the written troubles of the brain'. But no such surgery or erasure of inscription is... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...impossible, to expunge. Macbeth's words to the Doctor suggest the capacity of memory to afflict the present: "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain?" (5.3.40-42). The very act of remembering can harbor... | |
 | George C. Pitzer - 1996 - 98 pages
...Mo., Oct. i, 1898. Suggestion In the Cure of Diseases and-the Correction of Vices. "Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with aome sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the sturTil... | |
 | Rollo May - 1999 - 292 pages
...on her hand, and Macbeth and the doctor he has called watch her, Macbeth pleads with the physician, Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain . . . The destiny of Macbeth, we assume, is a combination... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 pages
...Macbeth asks the doctor to cure Lady Macbeth of the 'thickcoming fancies | That keep her from her rest : 'Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, | Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow. | Raze out the written troubles of the brain.' 4. Shirley has similar, and pervasive, imagery of sharp,... | |
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