 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 942 pages
...tin i» his haiul, By thinking oit the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy Uit' tiunery rde>- of app"« !te, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in...December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! tile n ; ti i , . • I " •; i - '"ii of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the... | |
 | Robert Fergusson - 1815 - 348 pages
...Then happiness at length should reign, And golden age begin again. ON THE COLD MONTH OF APRIL, Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat. SHAKES, RICH. H. POETS in vain have hail'd the op'ning spring, In tender aecents woo'd the blooming... | |
 | 1815 - 930 pages
...aspirants to exotic fame and pleasure, rarely find that they can •gratify their curiosity by deputy, or " cloy the hungry edge of appetite, by bare imagination of a feast." — This is not a political, a philosophical, a classical, a sentimental, or a pittoresque tour ; it... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 pages
...snarling Sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Eolingbroke. Oh, 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 fantastic summer's heat ? Oh, no 1 the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Thoughts ineffectual to moderate Affliction. 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 fantastic summer's heat ? O, no ! the apprehension of the good Gives... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 366 pages
...the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing eke, But that I was a journeyman to grief ?» Baling. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the...December's snow, By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O, no! the apprehension of the good, Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth... | |
 | 1856 - 834 pages
...that Bolingbroke must have been a Circassian traveller, and spoke feelingly when he said — " Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the...hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? " It was late on the following morning before we roused ourselves from the heavy slumbers consequent... | |
 | Robert Patterson, Recluse - 1817 - 338 pages
...! thy fairy skill Can turn the IDEAL flood at will, * Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. . t Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungty edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow, By thinking... | |
 | 1817 - 254 pages
...than Bolingbroke was willing to allow, when he asked him with such an air of confidence— , ____ Oh ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or clog the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snoir,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1817 - 576 pages
...the previous ones — from the quantity of kyan pepper which they had sprinkled upon each set ! ' (O, who can hold a fire in his hand ' By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ?') So terminated a transaction, as vexatious as it was unanticipated — and, perhaps, unprecedented.... | |
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