| George Wilson - Senses and sensation - 1861 - 168 pages
...early waking — what with loathsome smells ; And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad ; — Oh ! if I wake, shall I not be distraught P " I will quote but two further illustrations of the point under notice from the plays of the same... | |
| Robert Mattson - Drama - 1997 - 132 pages
...So early waking, what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. . . Oh, if I wake, shall I not go insane, Entombed there with all these hideous fears, And madly play with my forefather's joints?... | |
| Anne Ludlum - Slavery - 1998 - 84 pages
...spirits resort— Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking—what with loathsome smells That living mortals, hearing them, run mad— Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught And madly play with my forefathers' joints And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone As with... | |
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