 | Robert Fergusson - 1800 - 248 pages
...happiness at length should reign, And golden age begin again. c 3 3° ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL 1771. Oh! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frofty Caucasus; Or cloy the hungry ecige of appetite By bare imagination of a feaft; Or wallow naked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 630 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can. hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...For gnarling4 sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand. By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the wearer ! How many then should cover that stand bare I How many be commanded , that command I Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the...imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snowy By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | E H. Seymour - 1805 - 504 pages
...not agree with the context. 37. " Faintly borne." Borne with feebleness or dejection of mind. 38. " - >Who can hold a fire in his hand, " By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?" Sec. A sentiment resembling this occurs in Romeo and Juliet— " He that is stricken blind cannot... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 458 pages
...of the wearer I How many then fhould cover that ftand bare! How many be commanded, that command 1 OH who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the 'roily Caucafus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feaft ? Or wallow naked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Baling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastick summer's heat ? O, noj the apprehension of the good, Gives... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...THOUGHTS ineff'cftual to moderate AFFLICTIONS. (SHAKESPEARE) OH, who can hold a fire in his hand, liy thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? . • • Or cloy...of appetite, .' .. By bare imagination of a feast I Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? Oh, no, the apprehension... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1806 - 884 pages
...master of nature, whose works every philosopher who reads them will often have occasion to quote. " Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus, &c." Nor is it fit it Philosophers, nevertheless, there are who assert that ihould. man mav ;n time... | |
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O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? 
