 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 354 pages
...For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it. and sets it light. Baling. (), who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?9 fore u», probably remembered that part of Lvly's Euphues, 1580, in which Euphues exhorti... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...unhallowed wall it glides, " Where all its purity and lustre fails." ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL, 1771, Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ? SHAKES?. RICHARD II. POETS in vain have hailed the opening Spring, In tender accents wooed the blooming... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1807 - 378 pages
...unhallowed wall it glides, " Where all its purity and lustre fails." OK THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL, 1771. Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...December's snow By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat ? SHAKE sr. RICHARD II. POETS in vain have hailed the opening Spring, In tender accents wooed the blooming... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 346 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, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 358 pages
...noble and permanet objects which are so superior to those which are lowly and material .-j* " Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...frosty Caucasus; Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, Or wallow naked in December snows, By thinking of fantastic summer's heat, By bare imagination of a... | |
 | Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 356 pages
...noble and permanet objects which are so superior to those which are lowly and material.-j' * " Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...frosty Caucasus; Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, ' Or wallow naked in December snows, By thinking of fantastic summer's heat, By bare imagination of... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...extreme difficulty in regard to matter and mind. We should probably begin by trying whether he could " hold a fire in his hand, by thinking on the frosty Caucasus," but the theory has wisely guarded against such, experiments by a limitation of the distance. Yet there... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 pages
...them would sure have stirr'd remorse. Tressel. Take comfort, sir, and hope a better day. K. Hen. Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or wallow, naked, in December's snow, By bare remembrance of the summer's heat ? Away ! by Heaven, I shall... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 420 pages
...them would sure have stirr'd remorse. Tressel. Take comfort, sir, and hope a better day. K. Hen. Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or wallow, naked, in December's snow, By bare remembrance of the summer's heat ? Away ! by Heaven, I shall... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pages
...people have traced your unwearied attention to the national debt. Who, says your favourite poet, " Who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus >'' But the millions so often in your mouth have some little connexion with the money you hope for... | |
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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? 
